Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
It might have just been another murder story. An elderly man in Cleveland, Robert Godwin was shot. Another incident of gun violence.
But then, a video of the murder was uploaded to Facebook.
Tuesday morning, police in Pennsylvania report the suspect, the man who posted the video, shot and killed himself after being chased by authorities.
This incident has re-ignited a long-simmering debate about the company's responsibilities to its users and whether it's just a 'platform' or something more than that.
Laura Davis is Digital News Director of the Annenberg Media Center at USC, she joined A Martinez to discuss Facebook's evolving platform and where the company goes from here.
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