The study recommends transparency: Facebook explore

Also, the big announcement, Mark Zuckerberg's last Friday was no longer able to prevent the loss of Facebook's sixth-largest advertising customers. On Sunday, Starbucks announced that, until further notice, no advertising in social networks more turn. In order to create welcoming and inclusive Online Communities, more needs to be done, notes the company, and in order to change anything, really, would have to industry leaders and policy makers together. According to estimates by CNN, Starbucks has spent last year alone on advertising in Facebook 94,8 million dollars.

Fridtjof Küchemann

editor in the features section.

in mid-June, the campaign "Stop the Hate-for-Profit had called on" companies to switch in the next month, no advertising at Facebook. The number of companies involved is large, the advertising budgets are in place, the stock price of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg hastened to note that his company remove nearly ninety percent of the hate messages, before they would be reported. At the same time, he announced a tightening of the provisions for advertising and the monitoring of possible election manipulation. So it goes on for years, irrespective of the regions, whether the pressure on the company, hate speech and fake news finally stop, out of policy, or the economy comes up: Facebook takes seriously the allegations, acknowledges its responsibility describes the extent of the so far successful efforts, and to strengthen them.

The spiral continues. The great effort that the company operates to mitigate hatred and violence, and the always polyphonic formulated political expectations, Despite the number of daily Facebook users, the "No-Hate-for-Profit that is" hate messages to come in contact high: The campaign speaks of 42 percent. Instead of independent testing to allow, as the campaign calls have Facebook home is trying to your own research to "bury". This I found out that 64 percent of the members of the extremist German groups were joined on Facebook to recommendations beige.

an independent instance

Currently, Facebook is defined not just alone, what is it classified as a hate and racism in the social network of its own and sanction wants. The company decides what action it is taking, and has the sole access to the data, which allow you to identify whether these measures are working. Two years ago, had boasted Facebook with an Initiative called the Social Science One, the researchers should provide access to almost a billion gigabytes of raw data, in order to examine the influence of social media on democratic processes. However, both the nature of the data, as well as the selection of the researchers who had requested access, is Facebook. Privacy concerns the company delayed it by almost two years.