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>> I think the idea that Facebook is putting democracy in peril is a bit farfetched. Why? History has proven at least a few times that he who controls informat
by w0utert 9y ago
>> I think the idea that Facebook is putting democracy in peril is a bit farfetched.
Why? History has proven at least a few times that he who controls information can control people, and it never ends well. Even if Facebook is not deliberately trying to implant any ideas or spread misinformation and fake news, its platform can be (and has been, demonstrably) used for this purpose.
- dictum 9y agoThere's some irony in the fact that the ongoing scandal is about Facebook partially relinquishing control of information to a third-party (in fact, all third parties), and that the implied remedy was for Facebook to keep total control of information to itself.
- alex_duf 9y agoYeah I agree I noticed that myself. Any other social media can be abused in roughly the same way. Twitter has its bot problems, and I'm sure given enough popularity mastodon will face the same issues too.
- atomi 9y agoA friend and I in highschool discussed the possibility of governments archiving and recording telephone calls and then using that data to figure out what people's political leanings were to tailor a manchurian candidate. This was years before social media. Now people gladly give up their data for fame/notoriety.
- zerostar07 9y agohistory also shows that people shoot the messengers.