Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community
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Mark Zuckerberg: Building Global Community
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#2Notable functional promise to reduce prevailence of clickbait/fake news:
> Fortunately, there are clear steps we can take to correct these effects. For example, we noticed some people share stories based on sensational headlines without ever reading the story. In general, if you become less likely to share a story after reading it, that's a good sign the headline was sensational. If you're more likely to share a story after reading it, that's often a sign of good in-depth content. We recently started reducing sensationalism in News Feed by taking this into account for pieces of content, and going forward signals like this will identify sensational publishers as well.
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#3Did he just proclaim the Facebook Global Government?
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#4To me this all sounds like "Hey I'm sorry that fake news took over my website and seemed to slide things into a horrendous direction for a while, so let me blame the audience for their inaction rather than redesign my service around truth, honesty, and verifiability of information."
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#5Did he just proclaim the Facebook Global Government?
As Lessig said, the code is law. Given facebook's role, undoubtedly they will (and do) play a role in governance.
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#6Zuck is a cuck. The only tech company i sort of trust these days is Google. Fuck facebook.
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#7I find this letter to be deeply cynical. There's a baked in assumption that a global community is a good thing and that the only possible reason to resist it is because you're being left behind by its benefits. I don't think that's true and I certainly don't think it should be assumed a priori. There are people in this country, and every where in the world, who don't want globalization. And it's not because they haven't received enough of the benefits or need to be educated better, they don't want it for real reasons and, in a Democracy, that should be an acceptable stance. If we're not willing to accept that stance than we're forcing people into a global community that matches our vision for the future, not theirs. In other words it's a plot for world domination of one world view over another. I find it deeply cynical that instead it masquerades as a virtuous plan to help all man kind.
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#8"How do we help people build a safe community that prevents harm, helps during crises and rebuilds afterwards in a world where anyone across the world can affect us?"
For one, give people using your site some basic privacy so their own governments can't use your site to target political enemies.
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#10Is there a special filter or manual curation process for the comments at the bottom of Zuckerberg's posts?
From my skimming through the first 30-40 comments, they're uniformly positive. I find it hard to believe that any internet forum open to public commentary would have that many positive responses.