A social media knowledgeable, who not too long ago launched a blockchain know-how powered, decentralised social networking platform – Freebits.app, stated there’s a social media censorship disaster internationally.
Talking at a world seminar right here on Friday, Shiva Kintali, an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, stated social media platforms managed by know-how corporations have gotten areas of censorship and management.
“There’s a social media censorship disaster internationally. Journalists, politicians, world leaders, creators and even satire accounts are getting de-platformed. A few know-how corporations are controlling the worldwide social media communications and censoring, shadow banning and de-platforming opinions with none transparency,” stated Kintali.
He stated that democracy is inconceivable with out freedom of speech, cross-pollination of concepts and a standard understanding of what’s true and what’s false.
“Freebits is a brand new social networking platform constructed on blockchain applied sciences and is a radically new sort of social media, which has built-in assist for decentralised identification, Metaverse integration, AI-powered information aggregation, tamper proof pictures, movies, credentials and lots of extra,” added Kintali, who earlier than launching his personal enterprise, was a college within the Pc Science division, Princeton College.
The occasion titled ‘Worldwide Convention on Social Media and Growing Societies’ was organised by the Media Studies Department of Christ Nagar College, in affiliation with two different organisations primarily based outdoors India.
Manju Rose Mathews, the pinnacle of media research and organiser of the convention, stated the social media within the pandemic and post-pandemic age has various points to be studied by researchers.
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