Sacha Baron Cohen points to online toxic content and observes, "All this hate and violence is being facilitated by a handful of internet companies that amount to the greatest propaganda machine in history." He argues, " Voltaire was right, 'those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.' And social media lets authoritarians push absurdities to billions of people.... The Silicon Six—all billionaires, all Americans—who care more about boosting their share price than about protecting democracy. " And he makes a call for moderation. "We have standards and practices in television and the movies; there are certain things we cannot say or do.... surely companies that publish material to billions of people should have to abide by basic standards and practices too."
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