Using Facebook to Fight Corruption

Using Facebook to Fight Corruption

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Trump Leak Trouble, Facebook Fights Corruption, Stop Violence

Episode: Trump Leak Trouble, Facebook Fights Corruption, Stop Violence

  • May 17, 2017 11:00 pm
  • 14:14 mins

Guest: Sudipta Sarangi, PhD, Economics Professor, Head of the Department of Economics, Virginia Tech Facebook has come under fire for enabling the spread of fake news, so it has recently begun a more assertive process of identifying false news items and rooting out hoaxes.  But Facebook is not necessarily the enemy of all truth. In countries where press freedom is limited, Facebook correlates strongly with reducing government corruption.