Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
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Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#2He said it is not political and published it at the end of an election cycle ... Of course it is.
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#3This pseudo-apology is the worst sort of political expediency. He did what the government asked while denying doing it, now apologizes for it to curry favor with the rightwing world he alienated. It's like the NY Times pushing the weapons of mass destruction narrative during the Iraq war and later running long articles about what bad journalism that was.
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#4It is sometimes easy to say in retrospect we shouldn’t have demoted the story. But they did and they trusted the US Administration.
Facebook is international. Do they allow all speech even that which could be viewed as propaganda in the US?
Who makes the ultimate call on whether it be Russian disinformation or COVID-19?
We have tried many different moderation models and not all of them work.
If we try the Reddit route, then we could have incredible bias in moderated communities.
What about fitting the StackOverflow model to social media?
Another route is how X provides for the Community Notes feature. Would that have worked? Is Community Notes still susceptible to the same bias?
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#5Bet he'll do it again. "This time it's different." Assuming the man has any principles at all, he already demonstrated his willingness to violate them. He'll do it again.
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#6It is sometimes easy to say in retrospect we shouldn’t have demoted the story. But they did and they trusted the US Administration. Facebook is international. Do they allow all speech even that which could be viewed as propaganda in the US? Who makes the ultimate call on whether it be Russian disinformation or COVID-19? We have tried many different moderation models and not all of them work. If we try the Reddit rout…
I'm not sure if I see what you mean with the Stack Overflow idea. SO is purely a technical site, it's very easy to identify what's ontopic and everything else is offtopic. That doesn't apply to general discussion, never mind stuff like news or politics. How do you imagine that would work?
Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#7He said it is not political and published it at the end of an election cycle ... Of course it is.
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Re: Zuckerberg claims regret on caving to White House pressure on content
#8He said it is not political and published it at the end of an election cycle ... Of course it is.
Nonetheless, better late than never for Zuckerberg to admit that he and Facebook erred.
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#10It is sometimes easy to say in retrospect we shouldn’t have demoted the story. But they did and they trusted the US Administration. Facebook is international. Do they allow all speech even that which could be viewed as propaganda in the US? Who makes the ultimate call on whether it be Russian disinformation or COVID-19? We have tried many different moderation models and not all of them work. If we try the Reddit rout…
The shocking answer to this moderation question is not what most people want i.e free speech.