Facebook has accumulated a record of accusations and controversial situations over the past few years, a situation that was aggravated in recent days by scandalous allegations of a former company executive and a series of unacceptable interruptions in the service, which have caused an unprecedented crisis in one of the most successful and at the […]
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For several years now, some social media algorithms, especially Facebook‘s [1], have been the focus of controversy, due to their impact and responsibility in many contemporary socio-cultural phenomena, such as political [2] and ideological polarization, cultural homogenization [3], Fake News [4], Hate Speech [5] and outbreaks of racism and xenophobia. In response to this phenomenon,
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A change in WhatsApp’s privacy policy that allows the sharing of commercial information with Facebook’s platform in some specific cases triggered the largest attempt to disband users in the history of this communications platform, raising the number of downloads of other similar applications such as Telegram, Signal or Line. Are users’ concerns about WhatsApp justified?
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The GlobalWebIndex study[1] published this year[2], showed that: “Latin America is the region in the world that has the highest consumption of social network applications[3]”, highlighting that the countries with the highest use are Brazil and Colombia and the population segment that uses them the most are young people and adolescents. The high dependence on
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