Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
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#3One man's division is another man's engagement
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#4Do we ask or expect the same of the phone or cable companies?
Why the agenda to (further) censor Facebook and similar?
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#5Anyone know a good paywall workaround for wsj?
Re: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
#6Every platform ultimately makes choices in how users engage with it, whether that goal is to drive up engagement, ad revenues or whatever metric is relevant to them. My general read is that Facebook tries to message that they're "neutral" arbiters and passive observers of whatever happens on their platform. But they aren't, certainly not in effect, and possibly in intent either. To preserve existing algorithms is not by definition fair and neutral!
And in this instance, choosing not to respond to what its internal researchers found is, ultimately, a choice they've made. In theory, it's on us as users and consumers to vote with our attention and time spent. But given the society-wide effects of a platform that a large chunk of humanity uses, it's not clear to me that these are merely private choices; these private choices by FB executives affect the commonweal.
Re: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
#7Do we ask or expect the same of the phone or cable companies? Why the agenda to (further) censor Facebook and similar?
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Re: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
#8Nationalize Facebook.
Re: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
#9Do we ask or expect the same of the phone or cable companies? Why the agenda to (further) censor Facebook and similar?
Phone companies don't set up incentive structures that encourage a certain kind of content. Facebook has an "algorithmic" feed, likes, and "engagement" metrics that rewards certain behaviours and punish others. They are rightly being pilloried when these incentives encourage and promote constant outrage, conspiracies, and completely fact-free fear mongering.
Re: Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive
#10Nationalize Facebook.
ROFL, who's the worse privacy violator, Facebook or the NSA