The market, which is expected to post over Dh100 billion in sales through more than 30,000 transactions in first quarter, will sustain steady increase in transactions and prices throughout the year
Now look at social media. The reach of social media is more than any other form of media today. But, there is no censorship. Anybody is allowed to post anything whether it is true or false, good or bad. No controls exist, no questions are asked and there is zero accountability. Are we surprised then by what happened in the Cambridge Analytica case? The way people reacted to the Kathua and Asifa rape cases in India? Weren't these bound to happen?
All the social media today started from person to person communication and then it slowly extended further through the likes of Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter. Before we could even realise, all of them suddenly became more widely spread than the mainstream media itself. The speed at which it spread did not allow the legal machinery to keep pace with it. But, do we want to keep it that way?
Getting Zuckerberg to answer questions by Congress is hardly enough as can be seen clearly from the outcomes. There has to be a clear method for censorship on these social media. The companies running them cannot be trusted to self control because all said and done they are "for profit" organisations and nothing is more important to them than shareholder value.
But how do you control this, given the enormous volume at which data, images, text, tweets are posted every minute? The answer lies in technology itself. Artificial intelligence and machine learning can be used to design programmes that can apply policies to censor posts before they are posted. Government has to fund these projects and develop such technology. Only then can we hope for a better world where true, sensible and useful information is spread through social media.
Ultimately everything runs on trust. Think about it. - Ravi Nair, Dubai
The market, which is expected to post over Dh100 billion in sales through more than 30,000 transactions in first quarter, will sustain steady increase in transactions and prices throughout the year
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