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Alviana Dadiara
SMA KARTIKA XIX-4

Good morning/afternoon/night. This is SKZ World News and I’m Alviana Dadiara with the
latest news at the moment.

As we know it, people nowadays competing with using the most up to date technology for their
activities, one of them is using social networks. Social networks now are not just for
entertainment, but can be used as a political campaign like what has happened lately. As
reported by the BBC article about social networks, they took this opportunity to use social
networks as political purposes. This is made an international group lawmaker makes the
decision to suspend targeted political advertising on social media until they are properly
regulated.

Testimony given to the International Committee on Disinformation and Fake News warned of
dire consequences if action was delayed. In a statement given to the committee session, Jim
Balsillie, founder of the Centre for International Governance Innovation said that the business
model adopted by social networks made manipulation profitable and led to attempts to
influence people via many different means.

But Facebook told members it should not be the world's truth police. The statement came as
Facebook policy chief, Nick Clegg, said the social network is considering limiting the targeting
that political parties can make through its platform.

Marc Rotenberg, head of the Electronic Privacy Information Centre, said that social networks
had been exposed and fined many times for not doing enough to protect their users. He reserved
particular criticism for Facebook and said while regulators had sought to oversee its actions in
the past. Mr Rotenberg also said that the longer enforcement action is delayed the more dire
the consequences.

Facebook's head of global policy, Monika Bickert, defended the company and its stance on
political advertising. She said, in some countries, identities had to be verified before ads could
be placed and said it now used third-party fact checkers to scrutinise claims made in adverts.
Ms Bickert also added in a mature democracy with a free press, political speech is arguably the
most researched speech. This makes Facebook is prohibited from making ads from the UK tax
campaign group because it violates the rules on political advertising. Facebook's attitude
towards advertising has been criticized by experts who say it gives politicians freedom to create
deliberately misleading content.

It can be concluded that technology has a significant adverse effect, especially social networks.
Social networks now have been contaminated several issues because these are the easiest media
to unite with the people. Although starting with one platform, this will certainly spread easily
and have an impact on another platforms. However, this has a positive impact that we must use
social networks wisely. And also, the quote for today is: one rotten apple will spoil the whole
barrel, the slightest problem will be great if left unchecked.

That’s all of the news for today. We meet again at the same time and same channel. Thank you
for your attention and see you next time.