3 ms·
It is a reflection of real world behavior. Before Facebook, people spread similarly wild rumors via word of mouth.
by billions 10y ago
It is a reflection of real world behavior. Before Facebook, people spread similarly wild rumors via word of mouth.
- ridgeguy 10y agoAnd now at scale. Illustrates the old saying "quantity has a quality all its own".
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- Fr0styMatt88 10y agoWere they PAID at scale to do so in the past though? That's the frightening part. The financial incentives in the system are all screwed up. These kids are doing it purely for the easy dollars; they don't even care about the politics at all. It's like schoolyard taunts, except the kids are getting paid for who can come up with the most viral rumour. Something seems deeply, deeply broken about this at a systemic level that's different than say, people spreading misinformation to others they know by word-of-mouth.
- marcosdumay 10y agoPaid for media is also not a new phenomenon. The only difference is that you need to pay lots of untrained people to lie on Facebook, while you needed to pay just a couple of highly trained people to lie on a newspaper.