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Did the WEF just call for social media owners to be imprisoned?! Take a look at the viral claim, and find out what the facts really are!

 

Claim : WEF calls for imprisonment of social media owners!

People are sharing an article (archive) by The People’s Voice (formerly NewsPunch), which claimed or suggested that the World Economic Forum just called for social media owners to be imprisoned for allowing “non-mainstream” content on their platforms!

Here is an excerpt of the (intentionally?) rambling and confusing article. Feel free to skip to the next section for the facts!

WEF Calls for Imprisonment of Social Media Owners Who Allow ‘Non-Mainstream’ Content on Their Platforms

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has called on government’s worldwide to begin imprisoning social media owners who allow ‘non-mainstream’ content on their platforms.

Klaus Schwab’s right-hand man Yuval Noah Harari says people like Elon Musk must be held liable for so-called ‘misinformation’ on X.

Harari’s argument challenges the longstanding defense used by social media companies: freedom of speech. “They always try to protect themselves by appealing to freedom of speech… the companies need to take responsibility for their algorithm,” Harari declared. He insists that platforms must be held accountable not just for user-generated content but for the ways their algorithms amplify or suppress specific messages.

This represents a significant shift in focus, moving beyond content creators and aiming directly at the mechanisms of content distribution. Harari’s stance is clear: “If the algorithm is writing it, then you’re definitely liable for what your algorithm is writing.” This brings into focus the growing role of artificial intelligence (AI) in moderating online content.

Harari’s comments appear to be a direct shot at Elon Musk, who purchased X with the aim of promoting an open flow of information. Musk has long championed the idea that information should be free, and that a thriving democracy depends on the free exchange of ideas, even controversial ones. Harari dismisses this viewpoint, saying, “Information isn’t truth. Most information in the world is junk… If you think that you just flood the world with information and the truth will float up—no, it will sink.”

Harari suggests that Musk’s hands-off approach—allowing all information to flow freely—creates an environment where truth is overwhelmed by noise. He argues that institutions like newspapers, universities, and courts are necessary to sift through information and determine what is reliable. He draws a comparison to an editor at a major newspaper, noting that just as an editor is responsible for what is placed on the front page, social media companies should be held to the same standard when their algorithms promote content.

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Truth : WEF did not call for imprisonment of social media owners!

This appears to be yet another example of fake news created / promoted by The People’s Voice, and here are the reasons why…

WEF did not call for imprisonment of social media owners

Let me start by pointing out that the World Economic Forum (WEF) did not call for the imprisonment of social media owners.

If the WEF actually made such a shocking statement, it would have been widely reported by media outlets all over the world, and criticised by people, as well as those social media platforms themselves.

Yet, there has been no media coverage, not even some outrage on social media. No social media platform has condemned such a declaration either. Nada. Zilch. That’s because the WEF never called for the imprisonment of social media owners!

Unsurprisingly, The People’s Voice article did not provide any evidence to back up its claims. In fact, it only appeared to refer to imprisonment in its title and lede. There was no further mention of any threat of imprisonment in the rest of the very long article.

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Yuval Noah Hariri is not Klaus Schwab’s right-hand man

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli professor in the Department of History, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He does not work for the WEF, and he is certainly not Klaus Schwab’s right-hand man.

Yet again, The People’s Voice article provided no evidence to back up its claim that Yuval Noah Harari is Klaus Schwab’s right-hand man.

Yuval Noah Hariri did not call for imprisonment

Yuval Noah Harari also did not call for social media owners to be imprisoned for allowing “non-mainstream” content on their platforms. In fact, he never call for anyone to be imprisoned, period!

The “evidence” used in The People’s Voice article was a video segment of Yuval Noah Harari being interviewed on CNBC’s Squawk Box on AI’s impact on financial markets, and promote his new book – Nexus (buy in US | UK | AU).

In that interview, Hariri never once said that social media owners should be imprisoned for any reason, never mind for allowing “non-mainstream” content on their platforms.

Yuval Noah Hariri did not call for censorship

Yuval Noah Hariri also did not call for censorship of “non-mainstream” content on social media platforms. He only said that social media platforms should take responsibility for the actions of their algorithms.

In fact, Hariri emphasised that “we should be very, very careful about censoring human users“, but pointed out that the social media companies “need to take responsibility for their algorithms“.

If you watch the video, you can see that Hariri believes social media platforms should be held responsible for what their algorithms promote, and not the content itself (unless it was created by their algorithms).

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The People’s Voice is known for fake news

The People’s Voice is the current name for NewsPunch, which possibly changed its name because its brand has been so thoroughly discredited after posting numerous shocking but fake stories.

Founded as Your News Wire in 2014, it was rebranded as NewsPunch in November 2018, before becoming The People’s Voice. A 2017 BuzzFeed report identified NewsPunch as the second-largest source of popular fake news on Facebook that year.

Its articles have been regularly debunked as fake news, so you should think twice about sharing anything from NewsPunch / The People’s Voice.  Here are some of its fake stories that I fact checked earlier:

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