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What worries me is when Facebook and Google both decide to insert themselves into politics. I definitely saw Google trying to influence the last election. I wou
by enknamel 10y ago
What worries me is when Facebook and Google both decide to insert themselves into politics. I definitely saw Google trying to influence the last election. I would constantly get push notifications to my phone with anti Trump news. These were the very first and only push notifications I received from Google News.
There's also the question of "Fake News" on Facebook. You could conceivably abuse their reporting system to bury articles you don't want people to see. This already happens quite a bit on YouTube where people will mass report videos for copyright infringement just to get them taken down.
If we rely entirely on these global channels for our world information they could conceivably shape our world view to their benefit. It's a scary proposition.