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Why am I supposed to care? Facebook isn't a news source. They're a software company. They're under no obligation to be fair and balanced.
by wry_discontent 10y ago
Why am I supposed to care? Facebook isn't a news source. They're a software company. They're under no obligation to be fair and balanced.
- abiox 10y agonobody is really obligated to be "fair and balanced", even people who use that expression.
- solipsism 10y agoNews organizations also are under no obligation to be fair and balanced (obviously). They don't even have to pretend they are if they don't want to. Some think they should be obligated, but that's a different discussion.
- tremon 10y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11764095 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11764095 seems to suggest that at least political candidates can "enforce" some fairness if they'd care to do so.
- noobermin 10y agoYou're probably right. This again is a demonstration of how much facebook is now a public utility more than it is a software company at least in people's minds.
- Turing_Machine 10y agoThey wouldn't be under an obligation to be "fair and balanced" even if they were a news source. That's utterly irrelevant. However, given that the American electorate skews 37% conservative, 35% moderate, and 24% liberal, they might have a fiduciary duty to their stockholders to not alienate large swathes of users. http://www.gallup.com/poll/188129/conservatives-hang-ideology-lead-thread.aspx http://www.gallup.com/poll/188129/conservatives-hang-ideolog...