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“Lost Idealism” my ass. Everyone with two brain cells knew what zuck was from square-one. Play with the devil, get burned.
Meta is probably the only large tech company where we would be better off if they had never existed. Or, at the very least, it nothing of value would be lost.
Meta is probably the only large tech company where we would be better off if they had never existed. Or, at the very least, it nothing of value would be lost.
I think Twitter (and to a lesser degree its derivatives like bluesky, threads, etc) did far more harm than Facebook. It played a major part in ruining journalism and politics to a degree that far outshadows any other social media platform.
Twitter "ruined journalism" by giving lazy media companies a way to "track big stories" (i.e. a few thousand people comment about N and that's News, apparently.)
Facebook "ruined journalism" by virtue of users not bothering to read the news at all.
Both are horrible.
But, facts, "Journalism" was ruined by corporate interests decades ago.
It's unfortunate that the article references several alleged errors that are fundamentally inconsequential (did people participate in Karaoke on a flight ? wtf ?) before it gets around to mentioning that a co-founder of Facebook endorses the book, that reference is three paragraphs from the end. I found the article "Eight things we learned from the Facebook Papers" interesting because it exposes the technical limitat…
> it likely applies to any content in less common languages, yet this issue rarely comes up in discussions about their moderation efforts It comes up constantly, just not by politicians and lobbyists with ulterior motives. It's certainly a huge reason they're investing in LLMs too. Politicians typically don't care about the reality and limitations of the policy they propose, and view moderation either as censorship o…