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I'm with you on the analysis. > There is likely next to nothing they can actually do to stop coordinated exploitation by highly skilled and intelligent state a
by holowire 8y ago
I'm with you on the analysis.
> There is likely next to nothing they can actually do to stop coordinated exploitation by highly skilled and intelligent state actors.
If they weren't so spineless, the solution is simple, at least in the time leading up to elections. Shut it down. Turn off ads. Disable non-profile pages. Allowing blatant manipulation of the platform deserves a blunt solution. Maybe let people think for themselves for once? Facebook is a convenience, not a necessity.
- sjroot 8y agoThat makes zero business sense and will never happen. It isn't Facebook's responsibility to teach people how to identify advertisements or posts trying to sway their opinion.
- holowire 8y agoI don't disagree, and it's not facebook's responsibility to teach people how to identify manipulative content, but that viewpoint is too narrow. People blindly trust facebook because it is positioned as a safe place on the internet. Users let their guard down and don't think about what they are seeing critically enough to not let themselves be manipulated. And that's exactly what facebook wants from an advertising revenue perspective. It is in their gross negligence of responsibility in keeping user data safe and out of the hands of bad actors that their complicity lies. If facebook wants to assume ownership over our data, then they are responsible for it, and by extension what others do with it.
- rhizome 8y agoThat makes zero business sense and will never happen Depends on the business model, doesn't it?