Journalists decry Facebook experiment's impact on democracy
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Journalists decry Facebook experiment's impact on democracy
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#2This was recently posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15552252
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#3Why don’t these publishers band together and launch their own news aggregator if they think that’s something people want? I don’t see Facebook owing them a platform here and from a personal perspective politics can’t be removed from my _social_ feed fast enough.
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#4Why don’t these publishers band together and launch their own news aggregator if they think that’s something people want? I don’t see Facebook owing them a platform here and from a personal perspective politics can’t be removed from my _social_ feed fast enough.
but if you spent a bunch of time liking/following things on facebook and it's not in your feed anymore, a good chuck of your "experience" is gone. so it's not just the publishers that are losing out. Personally, I hate facebook and don't use it.
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#5Why don’t these publishers band together and launch their own news aggregator if they think that’s something people want? I don’t see Facebook owing them a platform here and from a personal perspective politics can’t be removed from my _social_ feed fast enough.
but if you spent a bunch of time liking/following things on facebook and it's not in your feed anymore, a good chuck of your "experience" is gone. so it's not just the publishers that are losing out. Personally, I hate facebook and don't use it.
I think if that was going to be a major issue for user engagement that FB wouldn’t be making this move.
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#6The journalists should really blame themselves for using facebook in the first place. They knew what they were buying into.
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#7This is why you don't put all of your eggs into someone else's basket.
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#8Why don’t these publishers band together and launch their own news aggregator if they think that’s something people want? I don’t see Facebook owing them a platform here and from a personal perspective politics can’t be removed from my _social_ feed fast enough.
- Journalists =/= publishers
- Ignores non-negligible capital costs
- Complaining about politics in your social feed is asinine since many people are interested in politics and choose to share that interest socially, so you're gonna hear about it anyway
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#9Why don’t these publishers band together and launch their own news aggregator if they think that’s something people want? I don’t see Facebook owing them a platform here and from a personal perspective politics can’t be removed from my _social_ feed fast enough.
but if you spent a bunch of time liking/following things on facebook and it's not in your feed anymore, a good chuck of your "experience" is gone. so it's not just the publishers that are losing out. Personally, I hate facebook and don't use it.
Yeah, the more they "improve" it, the less I want to use it.
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#10The journalists should really blame themselves for using facebook in the first place. They knew what they were buying into.
Sadly, it's where their audience is.