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There seems to be a flurry of these anti-Zuckerberg articles today. The Verge: [Mark Zuckerberg sidesteps blame for Trump presidency, says we should all 'work

There seems to be a flurry of these anti-Zuckerberg articles today. The Verge: [Mark Zuckerberg sidesteps blame for Trump presidency, says we should all 'work harder'](http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13582008/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-trump-president-statement http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/10/13582008/mark-zuckerberg-...) Insinuating that he is in fact to blame. The article doesn't make an argument that he is (other then repeatedly mentioning that he didn't say who he voted for), but intent of the headline is obvious.

paganel 10y ago
I wonder why Zuckerberg (and the people behind Twitter) weren't as equally blamed when the Arab Spring started. As far as I remember both FB and Twitter were heralded as pinnacles of democracy back then by some of the same journalists who now decry how "social media is helping spread bullshit facts".
- nikcub 10y ago
  It's the double-edged sword with a lot of tech and you see it also with Tor and Wikileaks. It's great when it's being used against your opponents but you hate it when it's being used against your own side.
- justratsinacoat 10y ago
  I don't understand this. AFAICT, parent is implying it's meaningful to compare Middle Easterners sharing information about protests and violence, and Westerners sharing unverifiably truthy HuffPo/Breitbart/whatever articles. It's true that both of those examples boil down to 'humans digitally sharing information', but the circumstances surrounding both the humans and the information are so different as to make this kind of reductive comparison useless.
desireco42 10y ago
Tech media as well as news outlets are becoming (maybe they alway were) a sewer. I somehow understand you write praises for and don't seem to notice bad things about Hillary, but tech press writes reviews of laptops and cameras, that if I didn't know better I would believe. Apple Macbook, Fujifilm T something, have serious flaws and not a peep from them. Gizmodo used to be laughing stock, but now I feel like most of main tech outlets are oblivious to real world. Verge just can't report anything substantial. This is just establishment trying to pin the blame and understand how they didn't manage to manipulate people into doing what they wanted us to do.
ilolu 10y ago
Hillary lost because of Facebook, Zuckerberg, Bernie, twitter, FBI, Russia, Deplorables, racists, sexists, Obama, .... Its not her fault that she lost to the worst candidate ever.

paganel 10y ago

I wonder why Zuckerberg (and the people behind Twitter) weren't as equally blamed when the Arab Spring started. As far as I remember both FB and Twitter were heralded as pinnacles of democracy back then by some of the same journalists who now decry how "social media is helping spread bullshit facts".

nikcub 10y ago
It's the double-edged sword with a lot of tech and you see it also with Tor and Wikileaks. It's great when it's being used against your opponents but you hate it when it's being used against your own side.
justratsinacoat 10y ago
I don't understand this. AFAICT, parent is implying it's meaningful to compare Middle Easterners sharing information about protests and violence, and Westerners sharing unverifiably truthy HuffPo/Breitbart/whatever articles. It's true that both of those examples boil down to 'humans digitally sharing information', but the circumstances surrounding both the humans and the information are so different as to make this kind of reductive comparison useless.

desireco42 10y ago

Tech media as well as news outlets are becoming (maybe they alway were) a sewer. I somehow understand you write praises for and don't seem to notice bad things about Hillary, but tech press writes reviews of laptops and cameras, that if I didn't know better I would believe. Apple Macbook, Fujifilm T something, have serious flaws and not a peep from them. Gizmodo used to be laughing stock, but now I feel like most of main tech outlets are oblivious to real world. Verge just can't report anything substantial. This is just establishment trying to pin the blame and understand how they didn't manage to manipulate people into doing what they wanted us to do.

ilolu 10y ago

Hillary lost because of Facebook, Zuckerberg, Bernie, twitter, FBI, Russia, Deplorables, racists, sexists, Obama, .... Its not her fault that she lost to the worst candidate ever.