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> Google, Facebook et al wanted to make amends for biasing the election I'm still surprised by the anger for this. For the purposes of the viewer, Google and F
by liquidise 9y ago
> Google, Facebook et al wanted to make amends for biasing the election
I'm still surprised by the anger for this. For the purposes of the viewer, Google and Facebook are effectively media companies. By that measure, all media companies bias elections heavily during election cycles. This is done both with content and well as paid advertising.
But to "make amends" for something sounds as if their influence is either unprecedented or morally wrong. Perhaps the argument is that the bias from international influences was wrong. Something else entirely?
I suppose i fail to see where the real complaint here is. What behavior or lapse triggered these accusations?
- pnathan 9y ago> if their influence is either unprecedented It is. That's the entire point of the "filter bubble" argument that is coming up some 8-10 years old now.
- lurker456 9y agoThere are some (poor, outdated, ineffective) checks and balances on the use of traditional media for political advertising. The new media successfully lobbied to be even excluded from those. Additionally, a lot of people who are not in this business were surprised about the extent.
- shostack 9y ago>"But to "make amends" for something sounds as if their influence is either unprecedented or morally wrong." I think we're too early in Mueller's investigation to definitively be able to say whether their influence was morally or legally wrong, or whether actions of employees/executives of those companies were morally or legally wrong.