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Billionaires, hate and the undermining of social media integrity =================================================================================== [0 comments](#comments) | 24 shares Estimated reading time: 5 minutes ### Shakuntala Banaji ### January 17th, 2025 Totalitarian tech? Billionaires, hate and the undermining of social media integrity =================================================================================== [0 comments](#comments) | 24 shares Estimated reading time: 5 minutes 24 Shares *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.* It’s been a strange week for those of us who work on disinformation, social media and hate. Forget week, it’s been a strange year. Some would say that what we’re seeing is just business as usual, with billionaires and far right populists colluding with each other. If they have political power and untold wealth, who cares about the casualties, right? So, things are ominous – or at least taking us closer to a world in which many cannot survive. Political reaction and [medical misinformation](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53820225) circulated on social media and endorsed by top government officials and leaders, alongside [corruption](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.u4.no/publications/corruption-during-covid-19&ved=2ahUKEwimtMHawPiKAxVhUEEAHd9PNSQQFnoECDEQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0c9o6wJ-JCKjUP6f-Y7RCf) and profiteering by governments around the world and private companies, are to blame for the loss of millions of lives that might otherwise have been saved. Climate change-[related disinformation](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/09/politics/fact-check-trump-california-wildfires-fema/index.html) by fossil fuel [conglomerates](https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/08/fossil-fuel-industry-using-disinformation-campaign-to-slow-green-transition-says-un) and politicians makes it more difficult to plan for and prevent environmental disasters such as the ones in Spain, Pakistan, Australia, Portugal, Greece and the US, that have that claimed many lives over the past two years. A powerful minority are profiting massively from a rise in hate. Many in this minority are the same people elected to govern, with investments in multiple companies and the power to regulate the information sphere. While X owner Elon Musk lobbies for a place in Donald Trump’s inner circle and [considers purchasing the US arm of TikTok](https://www.independent.co.uk/business/tiktok-sale-usa-china-frank-mccourt-bytedance-b2680793.html) after [dismembering accountability](https://www.businesstoday.in/technology/news/story/elon-musks-x-lays-off-1000-employees-from-its-safety-team-report-412877-2024-01-11) and community on X (formerly Twitter), Mark Zuckerberg and his company Meta have [revealed measures](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/) that put millions of people’s mental health, safety, and lives at [greater risk than they presently are](https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/). That media billionaires have the kind of power which allows them to put people’s lives at risk has always been the case – notably Rupert Murdoch and [News International](https://news.sky.com/story/rupert-murdoch-turned-a-blind-eye-to-phone-hacking-allegations-at-the-news-of-the-world-and-the-sun-high-court-told-13098881) have been known to [interfere in election reporting](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/31/rupert-murdoch-fox-news-2020-election-dominion), favour conservative candidates, use [illegal surveillance methods](https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/phone-hacking/65978/what-did-rupert-know-when), and suppress news that could prevent violence. Last week, in a sycophantic show of support for Trump and his far-right supporters in the US, and cynically misusing the language of ‘free speech’, Zuckerberg and Meta’s new head of global policy Joel Kaplan unilaterally announced an end to its third party fact-checking programme for US content that has run since 2016. This was, they announced, to be replaced by an X-style community-notes system. Alongside this, Meta proudly declared that it would be loosening the moderation of hateful and dehumanising and disinformation, to allow, amongst other things, [women to be called household objects](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/07/tech/meta-hateful-conduct-policy-update-fact-check?utm_medium=social&utm_source=blueskyCNN&utm_content=2025-01-07T21%3A34%3A38), members of LGBTQIA+ communities to becalled [mentally ill](https://www.wired.com/story/meta-immigration-gender-policies-change/) and racism against immigrants to thrive. It’s not that we, the people, are all passively sitting back and letting this happen. Many [scholars](https://www.channel4.com/news/musk-whipping-up-anti-immigrant-sentiment-disinformation-expert), rights organisations and journalists have been decrying these moves while users have collectively been deactivating their accounts in protest. In late November there was an exodus from X to competitor and relative newcomer, [Bluesky](https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/g-s1-34898/bluesky-traffic-surge-after-election); and in a gesture of defiance against the US administration’s threat to ban TikTok if Chinese owners ByteDance won’t sell its US operation to a US company,[millions of US TikTokers moved to Chinese e-commerce platform Xiaohongshu](https://www.wired.com/story/red-note-tiktok-xiaohongshu/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_011425&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_011425&bxid=677e9798f438ccef74025585&cndid=&hasha=a5a572298b3d69e5702fd9950a2a538b&hashc=d89afad4898c01118f0a107d7cfa4344e70284cb3a9c15f5a822e58dbda9e4e7&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active), known in English as [LittleRed Book](https://www.wired.com/story/little-red-book-xiaohongshu-crowdsourced-shopping-app/) or Red Note. Observing the new English-speaking arrivals on Xiaohongshu over the past few nights, and their interactions with longtime Chinese users, has been a fascinating and humbling experience. While I am well aware of the many downsides of naiveté about Chinese state surveillance, and scholars such as Gu et al. and Jiannan Shi have written about [the tactics](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/13548565241299281) that communities have to use to elude discriminatory algorithms or [fight misogyny](https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/viewFile/22324/4849), the sheer volume of news and unexpectedly joyful connections being made by Chinese and US Xiaohongshu users has been uplifting. The initial rush of ‘This is me, this is where and how I live, hello from the US’ and ‘Welcome to China, [this is how we do things here’](https://www.tiktok.com/@xiranjayzhao/video/7459541849934466309) videos has been overtaken by videos expressing surprise and excitement at finding that China is not the grim, unspeakable morass of [propaganda](https://www.tiktok.com/@melodyy12345678/video/7460527778836925738)that successive US administrations, churches, media outlets and wealthy expat novelists have given ordinary citizens to believe. The mass move has also sparked a new [sub-genre of satire](https://www.tiktok.com/@advicefromlouisreloaded/video/7459609211593313567) in which US users joke about their willingness to ..._This content has been truncated to stay below 10000 characters_... ring colonial times. When big business supports colonisers and fascists, we all know where those processes lead. Second, let’s examine the disingenuous claim that we need to loosen controls on hateful speech so that platform users can express themselves more freely. The recent spate of hate is aimed primarily against those who have historically been targeted for extreme offline violence and have struggled to get equal rights: queer and trans communities, immigrants, Muslims, Black and brown people, women and those involved in social justice work, such as environmental, anti-war, pro-Palestinian or trade union activism. This is not accidental. Rather, the surge of hateful disinformation is being encouraged and funded deliberately by right wing and conservative think-tanks, global political actors, with a [massive infrastructure of fake news and disinformation](https://hyphenonline.com/2024/08/21/inside-the-far-right-disinformation-networks-that-fuelled-the-uk-riots/) penetrating deep into civil society, targeting specific demographics of voters. In August 2024, this [social and technological engineering](https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/aug/11/its-ok-everyone-else-is-doing-it-how-do-we-deal-with-role-violence-on-social-media-played-in-uk-riots) by powerful political interests on the far right demonstrated its efficacy by causing [vicious racist riots](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/8/6/uk-riots-raise-the-spectre-of-racism-and-evoke-haunting-memories) across the UK. Finally, let’s look at the history of why platforms had initially been forced to implement third-party fact-checking and better moderation of hate. Public anger at a series of scandals – [Cambridge Analytica’s role in swaying voters](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election) towards [Brexit](https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2017-05-18/campaigners-target-voters-brexit-dark-ads/)being one, the public murder of George Floyd being another and the rapid embrace of [Covid-19-related medical misinformation](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52903680) being a third – prompted platforms such as Twitter (now X), Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, as well as messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram, to put in place more careful policies – and warnings – to deter the spread of misinformation. In the wake of an [even greater rise in racist hate speech](https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/gw-study-offline-events-spike-online-hate-speech) in backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement, integrity, trust and safety teams and moderators worked hard, albeit [constrained by company policies](https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/10/05/1036519/facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen-algorithms/) to [tread softly around the posts of followers of far right leaders](https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-papers-india-modi-misinformation-rss-bjp.html) such as Trump, Bolsonaro and Modi. Publicly shamed and with former UK parliamentarian Nick Clegg then in charge of global policy, Meta actively courted [and engaged an array of independent fact checking](https://www.facebook.com/formedia/blog/third-party-fact-checking-how-it-works) organisations, mainly in the global south, to support their moderation processes. Online hate, misinformation and disinformation against minoritised groups continued to rise, worldwide, and to be used by the far right in WhatsApp and Telegram groups to organise lynchings, pogroms and social violence. But this, according to [our research](http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/120503/1/Social_media_and_hate_published.pdf), was in spite of and not because of efforts of independent factcheckers. Thus [hate proliferated](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/hate-speech-social-media-global-comparisons), alongside the continuation of longstanding AI-based systems’ (bots, algorithms) surveillance of and censorship of progressive voices. Words can barely describe the [horrific cruelty](https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/12/4/no-end-to-suffering-of-gaza-children-as-israeli-attacks-rage-on) that the people of Palestine have collectively endured over the past 16 months. The tone for [media reporting and censorship about their plight](https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/10/24/shadowbanning-are-social-media-giants-censoring-pro-palestine-voices) was set by November 2023, however, with Meta being one of the first platforms to [ensure its algorithms would not give fair coverage](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c786wlxz4jgo.amp) to accounts describing the US and Europe supported destruction of Gaza. In December 2023, [Human Rights Watch reported](https://www.hrw.org/report/2023/12/21/metas-broken-promises/systemic-censorship-palestine-content-instagram-and) that: > Meta’s policies and practices have been silencing voices in support of Palestine and Palestinian human rights on Instagram and Facebook in a wave of heightened censorship of social media amid the hostilities between Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups that began on October 7, 2023. This systemic online censorship has risen against the backdrop of unprecedented violence, including an estimated 1,200 people killed in Israel, largely in the Hamas-led attack on October 7, and over 18,000 Palestinians killed as of December 14, largely as a result of intense Israeli bombardment. We are in a very grim period when it comes to trust and integrity in the media and social media sphere. A powerful nexus of private companies and authoritarian politicians [garbed as ‘free speech’ advocates](https://theintercept.com/2025/01/09/facebook-instagram-meta-hate-speech-content-moderation/) are profiting from hate and [some governments](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-seriously-concerned-about-meta-changes-hate-speech-policy-2025-01-14/) are really worried. To change any of the plethora of harmful outcomes, really swift and decisive measures need to be taken to break up media and tech monopolies by any remaining governments with an interest in democracy; and to draw attention to and curb the conflicts of interest that occur when [billionaires and politicians](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crmngpvv08lo) are allowed to circulate dangerous lies, and make or break rules to suit their agendas, at the expense of ordinary people. 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[World](https://www.nbcnews.com/world) Elon Musk courts Europe's surging far right =========================================== Musk has thrown his support behind far-right politicians in the U.K., Italy and Germany, where the leader of the AfD party has evoked Nazi rhetoric. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk at Madison Square Garden in New York.Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC By Freddie Clayton LONDON — Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are wrestling with a decision to fast-track legislation aimed at preventing foreign interference in national elections after [far](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-election-britain-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-rcna159935)[-](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-election-britain-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-rcna159935)[right leader Nigel Farage](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-election-britain-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-rcna159935) suggested that [Elon Musk](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-meeting-foreign-leaders-trump-conflict-putin-china-rcna184846) could donate to his once-fringe right-wing party, in the latest turn for the world’s richest man as he flexes his newfound political muscle. What began as a tech mogul railing [against political correctness](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/musk-election-misinformation-x-officials-twitter-voting-rcna176938) in the U.S. has evolved into what appears to be a global campaign of support for far-right ideologies, forcing governments on [both sides of the Atlantic](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-trump-donald-mar-a-lago-appointment-position-rcna179826) to reckon with Musk’s growing political and cultural influence. Last week, Farage told the BBC that his Reform UK party was in “ongoing negotiations” with Musk after the pair met at Donald Trump’s [Mar-a-Lago estate](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-avoids-shutdown-leaves-big-mess-trump-republicans-2025-rcna184899). Musk, a South Africa-born U.S. citizen, is prohibited from making a personal donation to a British political party, but he could potentially contribute through the U.K. subsidiaries of his various companies, which reportedly made around £90 million in profits over the past two years. “He wants to help us. He’s not opposed to the idea of giving us money, provided we can do it legally through U.K. companies,” Farage said. The U.K.’s Electoral Commission has said Prime Minister Keir Starmer must strengthen rules around political donations to protect its elections from foreign interference, [according to the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/18/starmer-protect-elections-foreign-interference-elon-musk). Such reforms could limit the amount a foreign national can donate via U.K.-based companies. While some U.K. lawmakers are reportedly resisting the demands, a discussion between Farage and Musk in Florida has sent lawmakers scrambling over 4,000 miles away, showing once again how the billionaire’s words carry weight well beyond the tech world. Once a self-proclaimed centrist who donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Musk has increasingly embraced far-right ideologies, frequently decrying the so-called “woke mind virus” and championing anti-immigration rhetoric. His transformation aligns with the resurgence of [President-elect Donald Trump](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-abolishing-debt-ceiling-rcna184820) and the rise of far-right parties across Europe, including France’s National Rally, [led by Marine Le Pen](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/france-no-confidence-vote-barnier-marine-le-pen-macron-rcna182585), and the Dutch anti-Islam politician [Geert Wilders](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/netherlands-eu-election-geert- ..._This content has been truncated to stay below 10000 characters_... 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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk at Madison Square Garden in New York.Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC By Freddie Clayton LONDON — Lawmakers in the United Kingdom are wrestling with a decision to fast-track legislation aimed at preventing foreign interference in national elections after [far](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-election-britain-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-rcna159935)[-](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-election-britain-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-rcna159935)[right leader Nigel Farage](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/uk-election-britain-nigel-farage-clacton-reform-rcna159935) suggested that [Elon Musk](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-meeting-foreign-leaders-trump-conflict-putin-china-rcna184846) could donate to his once-fringe right-wing party, in the latest turn for the world’s richest man as he flexes his newfound political muscle. What began as a tech mogul railing [against political correctness](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/musk-election-misinformation-x-officials-twitter-voting-rcna176938) in the U.S. has evolved into what appears to be a global campaign of support for far-right ideologies, forcing governments on [both sides of the Atlantic](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-trump-donald-mar-a-lago-appointment-position-rcna179826) to reckon with Musk’s growing political and cultural influence. Last week, Farage told the BBC that his Reform UK party was in “ongoing negotiations” with Musk after the pair met at Donald Trump’s [Mar-a-Lago estate](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/congress-avoids-shutdown-leaves-big-mess-trump-republicans-2025-rcna184899). Musk, a South Africa-born U.S. citizen, is prohibited from making a personal donation to a British political party, but he could potentially contribute through the U.K. subsidiaries of his various companies, which reportedly made around £90 million in profits over the past two years. “He wants to help us. He’s not opposed to the idea of giving us money, provided we can do it legally through U.K. companies,” Farage said. The U.K.’s Electoral Commission has said Prime Minister Keir Starmer must strengthen rules around political donations to protect its elections from foreign interference, [according to the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/18/starmer-protect-elections-foreign-interference-elon-musk). Such reforms could limit the amount a foreign national can donate via U.K.-based companies. While some U.K. lawmakers are reportedly resisting the demands, a discussion between Farage and Musk in Florida has sent lawmakers scrambling over 4,000 miles away, showing once again how the billionaire’s words carry weight well beyond the tech world. Once a self-proclaimed centrist who donated to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Musk has increasingly embraced far-right ideologies, frequently decrying the so-called “woke mind virus” and championing anti-immigration rhetoric. His transformation aligns with the resurgence of [President-elect Donald Trump](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-calls-abolishing-debt-ceiling-rcna184820) and the rise of far-right parties across Europe, including France’s National Rally, [led by Marine Le Pen](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/france-no-confidence-vote-barnier-marine-le-pen-macron-rcna182585), and the Dutch anti-Islam politician [Geert Wilders](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/netherlands-eu-election-geert-wilders-far-right-rcna155809). His encounter with Farage is not the first time the U.K. has had to reckon with the billionaire’s politics. Musk’s clashes with the center-left Starmer have been both public and inflammatory. Musk has accused Britain of being a “[tyrannical police state](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/elon-musk-britain-police-state-starmer-election-tommy-robinson-rcna181593),” amplified calls for a general electionjust months after Starmer became prime minister,and shared a video by a jailed far-right activist. Across the English Channel, in mainland Europe, [Musk](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-alternative-for-germany-election-far-right-nazi-past-rcna185018) [last week](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-alternative-for-germany-election-far-right-nazi-past-rcna185018) [openly endorsed](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-alternative-for-germany-election-far-right-nazi-past-rcna185018) Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right party under surveillance by the country’s domestic intelligence agency for suspected extremism. The AfD’s leader, Björn Höcke, has twice been found guilty by a German court of purposefully [employing Nazi rhetoric](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-soccer-jersey-barred-adidas-nazi-ss-lightning-symbol-rcna145977), though he has appealed the rulings. Musk’s backing of the AfD coincides with Germany’s upcoming snap elections, called after Chancellor Olaf Scholz [lost a confidence vote](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/germany-set-snap-elections-chancellor-loses-confidence-vote-rcna184373). “Only the AfD can save Germany,” Musk said on X, the morning before a deadly attack [at a Christmas market in Magdeburg](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/suspect-germany-auto-attack-killed-5-injured-200-self-identified-islam-rcna185119), where the suspect was revealed to sympathize with far-right movements, including the AfD. In September, Musk praised Italy’s far-right [Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-meeting-foreign-leaders-trump-conflict-putin-china-rcna184846) during a black-tie event in New York, calling her a “precious genius” and “even more beautiful on the inside than she is on the outside.” Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he has interfaced with leaders that many consider U.S. adversaries like Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to reports in The Wall Street Journal and other publications. Musk met directly with Xi at a 2023 dinner in San Francisco. His Tesla electric vehicles are largely manufactured in China, including at its Gigafactory Shanghai facility, one of Tesla’s largest factories. Asked about Musk’s influence on foreign policy, a former U.S. intelligence official told NBC News: “I’m more concerned about conflicts of interest. Under any other normal circumstance, that would not be permitted, but now we are in a different rule set when it’s Trump.” And in the U.S., Musk has already shown signs of his power over the political process, pushing the country’s government to the brink of a shutdown after joining with Trump to [effectively kill](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/musk-trump-caused-congress-nightmare-christmas-rcna184836) [a c](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/musk-trump-caused-congress-nightmare-christmas-rcna184836)[ongress](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/musk-trump-caused-congress-nightmare-christmas-rcna184836)[ional](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/musk-trump-caused-congress-nightmare-christmas-rcna184836) spending bill. While Musk’s outsize role showed what he can achieve in Washington, his capacity to wield political influence may begin to stretch beyond U.S. borders. 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