{"641356":{"#nid":"641356","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Sick of Facebook \u2018Censorship,\u2019 Georgia Conservatives Flocking to Parler After Election","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHans Klein, associate professor in the School of Public Policy, was quoted in the article \u0026quot;Sick of Facebook \u0026lsquo;censorship,\u0026rsquo; Georgia conservatives flocking to Parler after election,\u0026quot; published Nov. 16, 2020 in the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EMacon Telegraph\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe article explores how some users of Facebook have become frustrated by the platform\u0026#39;s guildelines and posting policies and have transitioned to Parler, a platform with more lenient moderation that promotes a greater commitment to \u0026quot;free speech.\u0026quot; Klein, who has studied Internet policy and how it shapes communication patterns, spoke to the fundamental intractability of the problem faced by social media platforms.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EExcerpt:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cblockquote\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EHans Klein, associate professor in the School of Public Policy at the Georgia Institute of Technology, said that mainstream social media platforms\u0026rsquo; efforts to fact check and limit the spread of false information seemed destined to enrage at least some of their users. For example,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/09\/26\/facebook-conservatives-2020-421146\u0022 rel=\u0022Follow\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epeople on the left have criticized\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003Esocial media platforms like Facebook for not going far enough to control right-wing conspiracy theories.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Facebook is now tangled up in an impossible task, to filter out \u0026lsquo;bad speech\u0026rsquo; or \u0026lsquo;false speech,\u0026rsquo;\u0026rdquo; Klein said. \u0026ldquo;If you don\u0026rsquo;t censor enough they\u0026rsquo;re pissed off, and if you do censor they\u0026rsquo;re pissed off and everybody\u0026rsquo;s angry. I think it\u0026rsquo;s actually an insoluble problem. You can\u0026rsquo;t get it right.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article247177844.html\u0022\u003EFull article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"35266","created_gmt":"2020-11-16 19:42:17","changed_gmt":"2020-11-16 19:42:31","author":"ifrazer3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"multiomics","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.macon.com\/news\/politics-government\/election\/article247177844.html","dateline":{"date":"2020-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2020-11-16T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"168131":{"id":"168131","type":"image","title":"Hans Klein","body":null,"created":"1449178968","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:42:48","changed":"1539024579","gmt_changed":"2018-10-08 18:49:39","alt":"Portrait of Dr. Hans Klein","file":{"fid":"225880","name":"HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":37247,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/HANS-KLEIN-DSC_4879_preferred_200x300.jpg?itok=ve5IlQsP"}}},"media_ids":["168131"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"167078","name":"School of Public Policy"},{"id":"1616","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}