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Social engineering, Propaganda and Facebook
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"The conservative curator described the omissions as a function of his colleagues’ judgements; there is no evidence that Facebook management mandated or was even aware of any political bias at work."
Plus, if you get your news from Facebook... I mean, Jesus.
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Judgements? Really? Lack of perhaps.
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Thank god we have Nick Denton's judgement as a fallback.
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Originally Posted by subego
Plus, if you get your news from Facebook... I mean, Jesus.
Unfortunately, these morons are also voters.
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I doubt anything they read on Facebook will sway them. Their minds are made up.
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What exactly does one imagine one is doing if they hold the job of "curator"?
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'd expect them to, I don't know... curate and shit.
If I want uncurated news for robots by robots, I go to Google.
Which I do.
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It's an issue of either transparency or interpretation. Yes, curation implied they manipulated the feed. If you had asked me they would have done so for either clicks or $$$. The problem with this revelation is that they suppressed news that would have gotten clicks based on politics. They're completely free to do so, but I can't blame anyone who that doesn't sit right with.
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This is why I want the news/propaganda/opinion/fiction labels to be mandatory. Selling advertising to "News" but getting opinion/propaganda should get the media outlets to have to return the money. its not like FakeBook isn't already playing around with others minds.
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
It's an issue of either transparency or interpretation. Yes, curation implied they manipulated the feed. If you had asked me they would have done so for either clicks or $$$. The problem with this revelation is that they suppressed news that would have gotten clicks based on politics. They're completely free to do so, but I can't blame anyone who that doesn't sit right with.
Considering the iron Facebook has, click and/or money optimization can be handled far better by a robot.
Adding a human to the story selection process can serve no function other than to add bias.
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Good rebuttal. I guess the answer is what their marching orders for favored content were.
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To twitters credit they announced or explained the policy of deverifying promoters of hate speech and violence.
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Looks like he won a senate investigation.
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Its the same as every newspaper ever and network news when there were only the big 3. As such who cares.
These days people seek out the news sources that echo the opinions they already have. Facebook isn't a journalism centric entity and its users don't pay a dime to use it. Its a private sector business issue.
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Barack Obama: Four more years of the Carter Presidency
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Originally Posted by Captain Obvious
Its the same as every newspaper ever and network news when there were only the big 3. As such who cares.
These days people seek out the news sources that echo the opinions they already have. Facebook isn't a journalism centric entity and its users don't pay a dime to use it. Its a private sector business issue.
Oh i totally agree with what you're saying. Whether or not they're a news agency doesnt really matter, as a private company they can choose to promote whatever they see fit (and other companies which have the opposite view have the same right). I have no problem with FaceBook/Twitter/Google/Apple/Microsoft bias.
And there isnt any issue either in pointing out and making people aware of their bias.
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The key difference is most news outlets who claim to be impartial are biased.
Facebook makes no claim to impartiality. The only reason one would think they are impartial is they believe Facebook to be a legit news source (wrong) or being impartial has financial benefit (wrong in most cases).
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Originally Posted by The Final Dakar
Good rebuttal.
Even a broken clock has its moment.
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