Tech companies still need to do more to deal with the unintended consequences of the power of their platforms, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner told Axios on Tuesday.
Weiner, who was visiting Washington as part of Silicon Valley's new attentiveness to the capital, argued that "the most important" way LinkedIn stays ahead of fake news and platform abuse is "manual curation and the role of editors."
He said "the ability to discern between what is real and what is fake [is] blurring at an alarming rate," and "it is really deeply concerning, not just the fake news trends, but the technology increasingly possible in terms of driving fake news."
Weiner said that the rate of change in the world has created these unintended consequences. He cited as an example "any organization that historically was focused on creating quality content [that now] builds a business based on a business model that is, in part, driven by traffic and clicks."
Weiner said that with such a business model, "you're going to see potentially a regression towards that action as opposed to the founding principles of the company, which is to deliver, hopefully, a quality experience and hopefully a factual experience and hopefully an experience that has been vetted and triangulated and isn't about being first or the most provocative or the most titillating."
But he stressed that the rise of technologies has made companies increasingly go further away from the founding principles of the firm.
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