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>As recently as just after the U.S. elections in November, he attempted to dodge responsibility for Facebook’s role in shaping the outcome. Now, three months la
by wccrawford 10y ago
>As recently as just after the U.S. elections in November, he attempted to dodge responsibility for Facebook’s role in shaping the outcome. Now, three months later, he is ready to take charge of the security, accuracy and diversity of how the world shares information. And he wants our help.
Damned if you do. Damned if you don't.
- m3rc 10y agoThose aren't the only decisions you have. Pretending you don't have any say in what's going on and then stepping in and pulling... whatever it is that he's trying to do now, are both not helpful.
- M_Grey 10y agoDamned if you do nothing, and then damned if what you do is a transparent and empty attempt to evade anything like personal or corporate responsibility going forward. Especially damned if you're a very well known quantity, and what is known about you is less than flattering. Doesn't trip off the tongue quite so nicely, but it has the benefit of being true.
- imw 10y agoDamn. Well said.
- rhizome 10y agoThird option: not participating in the news flow at all.
- supernumerary 10y agoThis is a smart idea. Intro of NewsFeed was heavily protested at inception... probably because we don't like it when our transitional objects interject reality: https://iainmait.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.html https://iainmait.land/posts/20170201-transitional-object.htm...
- burkaman 10y agoNot really possible, unless you mean shutting down Facebook completely. They could get rid of the trending section, but I think people directly posting and sharing random bullshit is a more significant and difficult problem.
- rhizome 10y agoFB involving themselves in what people post to each other is the greater problem. FB would absolutely not have to shut down if they refrained from making business decisions based on what you post.
- fleitz 10y agoWhy is Zuckerberg / FB responsible for presenting only views you agree with to his audience? If you don't like someone's ideas make better ones. It's not zuckerbergs fault people liked one persons ideas over another.