It’s obviously not great for public safety that neo-Nazis, far-right militias and other dangerous groups are finding ways to communicate and organize, and that those ways increasingly involve end-to-end encryption. The possible downside is that it’s tougher for the companies and law enforcement to hold misinformation spreaders and criminals accountable because their messages won’t be accessible. The obvious benefit is that people are ensured privacy. The apps offer “end to end encryption,” which is a jargony way to describe messages that get scrambled to become indecipherable to anyone except for the sender and the recipient. So the migration is heading toward Signal and Telegram. So there’s now this debate about whether it’s good that all these unsavory characters from the dregs of the internet are disappearing from big social platforms, or whether it’s dangerous to have them congregating in spaces where researchers, journalists and law enforcement can’t keep tabs on them as easily.īRIAN Perfect. A lot of the biggest figures in that world - including groups like the Proud Boys and QAnon conspiracy theorists - have moved onto more private platforms, where there’s less danger of getting deplatformed. KEVIN I can try! So in the world of extremists and conspiracy theorists that I follow, there’s been a kind of frantic mass migration from big platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, as those platforms crack down on misinformation and hate speech. In general, there’s concern that misinformation could become even more difficult to fight in private channels. There’s been a lot of chitchat among journalists and scholars about the mass migration from public social networks like Facebook and Twitter toward private messaging services.
BRIAN Hello, Kevin! You’ve been down the, ahem, misinformation rabbit hole for quite some time.
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