Totalitarian tech? Billionaires, hate and the undermining of social media integrity

Banaji, S.

(17 January 2025) Totalitarian tech? Billionaires, hate and the undermining of social media integrity. Media@LSE.

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Following Meta’s decision to ‘get rid of fact-checkers’ and the US administration’s decision to ban TikTok unless it is sold to a US buyer, LSE’s Professor Shakuntala Banaji looks at what the changing social media landscape means for the proliferation of online hate and disinformation.

Item Type	Blog post
Copyright holders	© 2025 The Author(s)
Departments	LSE > Academic Departments > Media and Communications
Date Deposited	12 Feb 2025
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127258

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