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Why should users be made aware of it?
by ekips 10y ago
Why should users be made aware of it?
- H0n3sty 10y agoBecause Facebook presents itself to users as a way to share and express what matters to them. Not as a way to share and express what matters to them so long as it agrees with Facebook's censors.
- mikeyouse 10y agoAre they being prevented from sharing or expressing what matters to them in any way? Because Facebook isn't amplifying their preferred sources via the trending section?
- H0n3sty 10y agoYes, according to the allegations implied in the letter. If Facebook penalizes topics which don't agree with Facebook's bias - that certainly would be preventing some of their users from expressing what matters to them. I don't follow your second question about amplifying.
- mikeyouse 10y agoBasically, people are still free to post whatever they want and their friends and families will still see it -- they were just restricting their "Trending" section to non-conservative news sources. So their freedom of expression was upheld but FB just wouldn't amplify certain sources.
- runholm 10y agoDo they really present themselves as anything in particular, or does we as users just make up these ideas of what they are showing us? I can't really seem to recall facebook making any promise about being a neutral party.
- ekips 10y agoWell, to a certain extent, they do exactly agree to that. You cannot post objectionable content on Facebook. Additionally, the Facebook feed is not a linear display of content. The feed has been manipulated for a while now. So users have known for a long time that Facebook changes what they view according to Facebook's whims.
- gwright 10y agoBecause intentionally misleading people is a problem. I don't know enough about this particular issue to judge Facebook but I think it is pretty well established that preventing fraudulent communications is a legitimate role for government.
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