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Facebook exec: media firms that don't work with us will end up 'in hospice'
- 394549 8y agoDidn't Facebook recently pull the rug out from under media organizations that worked with them, when they updated their feed algorithm to deprioritize news articles?
- neocraftster 8y agoDeprioritized, but not eliminated. There are many other things facebook can do to bury specific articles or publishers. Not showing them at all, as well as not showing articles that have been shared by friends, for example.
- neocraftster 8y agoReminds me of this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-privacy-data.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/magazine/facebook-google-... The big tech companies seem to be following the same abusive behavior as monopolies in other industries that preceded them.
- AndrewKemendo 8y agoWhy wouldn't they? Humans are basically the same no matter what their trade or craft is. If you get power, you try to keep and expand it. Nothing controversial there really.
- bepotts 8y agoSeems like she's just being candid to me. Journalism is in trouble, and it was in trouble long before Facebook and Twitter came along. Either adapt or die.
- toss1 8y agoRight. It's not like corporations, especially corps with a significant impact on society, should have any responsibility to use their power in a way that helps improve (or at least doesn't degrade) the society upon which their wealth was built . . . /<sarc>
- ENGNR 8y agoPublishers need to own their own distribution, it's that simple. That's their core business and it can't be outsourced