[BCMA] Registration now open! BCMA Panel: Museums, Social Media, and Hate - What Does the Ethical Use of Social Media in 2025 Look Like?

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*BCMA Panel: Museums, Social Media, and Hate - What Does the Ethical Use of
Social Media in 2025 Look Like?*

*Thursday, February 27th*
*12:00 pm - 1:30 pm*

Since Elon Musk purchased Twitter, now known as X, in 2022, the platform
has intentionally amplified mis/disinformation and alt-right views. In
January 2025, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the parent company of Facebook,
Instagram, and Whatsapp, announced new policies that eliminated the
company’s in-house fact-checking and moderation teams, permitted hate
speech towards immigrants and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities, and sought to bring
“masculine energy” into the company's corporate culture. In mid-January
2025, the US Government, through a bi-partisan agreement, supported a ban
on TikTok due to alleged data and security concerns, only to have the Trump
administration give the app a reprieve if it sold a 50% stake to the US
government. While these examples are only from the past few months, there
is a growing body of evidence showing that social media is negatively
affecting mental health, social cohesion, negatively impacting the
environment, and even contributing to acts of genocide around the world -
this begs the question, can social media be used by museums and ethical and
socially-responsible ways?

Join a panel of arts, culture, and heritage peers to discuss the social,
cultural, and environmental impacts of some of the largest social media
platforms in the world and discuss strategies for more socially responsible
ways of communicating the work of museums with broader audiences. This
online discussion will provide an opportunity to critically reflect on the
tools we use in our work and offer strategies for communicating online and
building audiences without further empowering companies that are actively
contributing to harm.

Register here!
<https://members.museum.bc.ca/public/event/details/655857cd9ec766206c201b0e9a411f55878a9524/1>

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Lorenda Calvert
Program Manager

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