The billionaire executive said, 'Hitler would have loved social media,' calling the platforms the 'most powerful marketing tool an extremist could ever hope for.'
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.
Studies have found that social networks create filter bubbles where users don't interact with anyone outside of their own belief system, if they want to.
Scholars and activists have long pointed out that social media can be used to spread hate and conspiracies and to manipulate the public.
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