Facebook has decided to fight against fake news being shared. Zuckerberg is taking responsibility as he believes that fake news on Facebook has influenced U.S. presidential election which is quite different from the comments he made last week. Facebook is working on technology to detect and classify misinformation more efficiently.
Opinion
Nowadays individuals have more power to the society than past. Anybody can post whatever information they want on the SNS. So as a receiver, we are needed to select the information and do not believe all information they got from SNS. I try to figure out where the source is when I see the news on SNS, not believing all information without thinking.
Hilary Clinton, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, hosted an extravagant fundraiser in California, raising over $4 million. Clinton’s Golden State fundraisers raised a stunning $100 million total, making California Clinton’s most remunerative state. Clinton has put a lot of effort into fundraising, excelling at bringing in money at top-dollar fundraising events, as opposed to past Democratic nominees, who have gained both funding and momentum through small-dollar donations. Clinton’s campaign manager surmises that Clinton will spend less time fundraising at the tail end of her campaign run, instead relying on online donations, which peaked in number after her debates with Republican candidate Trump. Clinton also relies on original assets, with a base of $68 million prior to her campaign fundraising runs.
My opinion
I am personally interested in the US presidential election but I have never focused on the money they use to run campaign. I think Hilary Clinton is smart enough to collect money in the best way at fastest. As fundraising, she also get more and more people support her through the event. There are many kinds of ways to collect money nowadays, but at the same time that needs candidates to be smarter to think about the strategy for collecting money. I will pay more attention to the presidential election with new point of view which is fundraising.
White House estimated that between 64 and 116 civilians have died during the year s 2009-2015 from U.S. drone strikes outside of Iraq ad Afghanistan in the same span that U.S. drone have killed between 2372 to 2581 militants. But some human rights group claimed that although they welcome the release of number of civilians that U.S. drone strike had killed, it is lower than all independent assessments estimated. Counts of civilian drone death has always been controversial. U.S. government needs to define who conceal the identities of people it has killed again.
Opinion
Actually technology has made the war much easier and reduced the number of people who unnecessarily be killed like not-armed people than it used to be before. But at the same time, technology cannot be perfect. Like this article, drone strike still kills people who is not targeted as a soldier. I cannot say they, United States, should stop using drone strikes easily but at least I can say they should try much harder not to kill civilians and not conceal the number of civilians they have killed. It is really scary to be in a situation that we never know when we get killed. For controllers of drones, it is just part of work, part of life, but for the people who live in the targeted country, it is part of war. Controller have to know that, and they have to realize they are actually killing people.
I believe that Japanese people should pay more attention to the social issues in other countries.
When I say “social issues”, it means especially problems happening in developing countries like poverty. Japanese people tend not to get interested in the social issues.
Maybe that is because Japan is ethnically homogeneous nation. But in order to solve the social issues and to make the world better place, we, Japanese, need to pay more attention to social issues.
Why we should pay more attention to the social issues can be described in one word, which is “World Citizen”. World Citizen is the way of thinking that I am belong to the world not one nation, so that I am also responsible for the other nations than the nation I live in. In my opinion World Citizen is composed with two main ideas. They are “ “Understanding” and “Consciousness”.
Understanding is to understand what is really happening there, what people are suffering from, and what causes that problem. Today we can reach to whatever information we need to know through the internet. However we tend to get only informations that get our interest. For example, those who is interested in politics only get the information about politics, and rarely get other informations like economy, terrorism and stuff. This kind of phenomenon is called Filter Bubble. It makes us have biased informations. This Phenomena makes us indifferent to social issues.
Consciousness is to realize(or think ) that I am also playing a part of causing the social issues. In other word, to notice that we are not unrelated to social issues. For example when we waste food, that behavior might make poverty in other country worse. Today we, especially people who live in developed countries, behave as if we were unrelated to the social issues. But who brings that kind of problems to developing countries is us. We did. We need to know that.
Having two ideas I mentioned above, we can be World Citizen. And World Citizen take social issues as their responsibility. As a result, the social issues will be solved and world becomes better place. What we have to do is to gather all kind of informations and input knowledges about the problems, and to have a little change to our life for the people in developing countries by realizing we are related to social issues.
Once again, I believe Japanese people becoming World Citizen and paying more attention to social issues is an answer to make better World in the future.
A Chinese 16-year-old boy was found in the cargo of the flight EK303 on the way to Dubai from Shanghai on May 27th. He said he had heard that the beggars in Dubai make 470,000 yuan a month. So the boy was planning to become a beggar in Dubai. China Daily report said non-United Arab Emirates citizens were making fortune begging, some making 270,000 dirhams. But these ambiguous informations are just some lucky case. Rumors about Dubai is widely spreading all over the world through mainly on twitter.
Opinion
I think the most terrifying part of this article is not about boy hiding in cargo to become beggar in Dubai or how much money beggars in Dubai make a month, but about how strong SNS affects children. They easily believe everything gotten from SNS, and don’t even think about it. It is very terrifying that many children believe all the information from SNS and they forget how to think, research, and doubt the information. Parents should not allow their children get on SNS until they become old enough to understand how untrustworthy SNS is.
In Uganda, Yowei Museveni has been president for 30 years.There was re-election vote on February, and opposition protest against election, Forum for Democratic Change(FDC) has called for a “defiance campaign” against him. But the government says if media support their protest against president, they will lose their license. More, a court ruled “defiance campaign” against the election result was illegal.
Media organizations was not allowed to live interview with opposition members or show their activity.
Opinion
In my opinion, media have to stand in the middle of government and civilians, or media cannot send not-filtered fact to civilian.
Especially election is the most important thing in government, I think.
But in case government banned media like this article, civilians has no way to know about government. If civilians cannot get the information about government, the country keeps being dictatorship.
To be honest, I don’t know if they civilians prefer to be democracy or dictatorship , but at least they should have chance to think about their government.
In Japan, at least we can get some information from media, though they may be filtered.
When I think about if we have no way to know what government is doing, I get so scared.