The Dishonesty of Big Tech in Privacy and Censorship
Today, the Big Tech platforms of Google and Facebook and their third-party fact-checkers like Politifact are dishonest. This dishonesty is significant because these companies market themselves as either objective, like the fact-checking organizations, or as an open platform, like Google and Facebook. This misleading marketing is also of concern when it comes to privacy in which the platforms say that user data are safe and by not being open with how they use private data. Companies like Google and Facebook need to be more transparent with data usage, more respectful of privacy, and less given to censorship on their platforms. Opinions about internet privacy have changed; however, these changes are recent, as shown in a study done in 2016 by the Journal of Social Studies Research . The study lays out how high school students in 2016 thought of internet privacy as a non-controversial issue. Stud...