Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger rebuked social media companies like Facebook and Twitter during a ceremony in which he was being honored with a humanitarian award on Thursday. “Hitler would have loved social media,” Iger said, according to Variety, upon receiving the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Humanitarian Award. “It’s the most powerful marketing tool an extremist could ever hope for because by design social media reflects a narrow world view filtering out anything that challenges our beliefs while constantly validating our convictions and amplifying our deepest fears." Scholars and activists have long pointed out that social media can be used to spread hate and conspiracies and to manipulate the public. AMAZON WORKERS TO TECH EXECS: DO MORE TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE“Hate and anger are dragging us toward the abyss once again,” Iger reportedly said.

Source: Fox News April 11, 2019 16:41 UTC