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People think if they can control facebook, they can swing elections. Hillary just recently made that comment if she controlled facebook. Look how Yahoo news an

People think if they can control facebook, they can swing elections. Hillary just recently made that comment if she controlled facebook. Look how Yahoo news and Google news pushes editorial pieces above news, almost like an agenda. Same thing was happening with facebook.

colordrops 8y ago
It's not almost like an agenda, it is an agenda.
gaius 8y ago
Wikileaks revealed email showing that FB was actively helping Hillary as they did Obama. She did control FB and it still didn’t work.
- InitialLastName 8y ago
  FB were actively helping Trump too [0]. They offered employees to both campaigns as "embeds" to help coordinate social media outreach. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/08/trump-digital-director-brad-parscale-facebook-advertising https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/08/trump-dig...
freehunter 8y ago
It seriously annoys me how major publications have editorial content on their main domain, on their main site, with the same template. Sure, it says "editorial" below the headline, but at first glance it looks like news. Washington Post, NYT, etc all put the full weight of their name behind content that's literally just a random blog from some random person with no fact-checking. If I see a headline on HN or Reddit or Facebook that says "'Giant Meteor Likely to Impact Earth' - NYTimes.com", how do I know if that's an impending disaster or just someone saying "NASA says it's theoretically possible"? The only way is to click the article and look for the "editorial" line, at which point the newspaper has already won.
- pofilat 8y ago
  WaPo has 3 Opinion sections, only one of which they label "Opinion" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/) The have /news/the-fix", something they call "Analysis", where they mix fact and editorialism https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/ and they have "Perspectives", also filed under /news https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/

colordrops 8y ago

It's not almost like an agenda, it is an agenda.

gaius 8y ago

Wikileaks revealed email showing that FB was actively helping Hillary as they did Obama. She did control FB and it still didn’t work.

InitialLastName 8y ago
FB were actively helping Trump too [0]. They offered employees to both campaigns as "embeds" to help coordinate social media outreach. [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/08/trump-digital-director-brad-parscale-facebook-advertising https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/08/trump-dig...

freehunter 8y ago

It seriously annoys me how major publications have editorial content on their main domain, on their main site, with the same template. Sure, it says "editorial" below the headline, but at first glance it looks like news. Washington Post, NYT, etc all put the full weight of their name behind content that's literally just a random blog from some random person with no fact-checking. If I see a headline on HN or Reddit or Facebook that says "'Giant Meteor Likely to Impact Earth' - NYTimes.com", how do I know if that's an impending disaster or just someone saying "NASA says it's theoretically possible"? The only way is to click the article and look for the "editorial" line, at which point the newspaper has already won.

pofilat 8y ago
WaPo has 3 Opinion sections, only one of which they label "Opinion" (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/) The have /news/the-fix", something they call "Analysis", where they mix fact and editorialism https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/ and they have "Perspectives", also filed under /news https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/