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> but it's doing well in its own right. I don't think anyone thinks Twitter is doing well in its own right. It's shedding users, it's possibly harming democrac
by mevile 8y ago
> but it's doing well in its own right.
I don't think anyone thinks Twitter is doing well in its own right. It's shedding users, it's possibly harming democracy, their moderation is being questioned daily in the national US press and many users don't know how to use Twitter.
- killerdhmo 8y agoFacebook and Google are just as complicit, if not more so, in this "harming democracy" and moderation questioning.
- mevile 8y agoThat may be true and I never made any assertion to say they weren't.
- bduerst 8y agoI understand Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, but how is Google being more complicit?
- 8bitchemistry 8y agoPerhaps via youtube's search and recommendation algorithms optimising for misinformation as an engagement strategy?
- bduerst 8y agoIs there proof that they are?
- 8bitchemistry 8y agoI encourage you to have a look at Guillaume Chaslot's https://algotransparency.org https://algotransparency.org - it identifies what videos YouTube's algorithm most often recommends, based on a given search. Serious question (I'm not trying to be facetious): looking at those recommendations, what do you think?
- bduerst 8y agoThat is not proof. It's cherry picked topics for uncontrolled Youtube recommendations to a bot account they created. I think nothing about that is scientific and it screams tech illiteracy.
- prepend 8y agoGoogle ads were also used substantially during 2016 [0]. Google’s ability to target messages to demographics that they only know because of their data trawling is effective for selling garage door repair and election influencing. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian...
- stale2002 8y agoBut, they are profitable... Which is more than fan be said about many social media companies.
- msravi 8y agoThis "harming democracy" and "being questioned daily in the national US press", is all about the existing arbiters of information (also called the mainstream media) trying to protect their control over information dissemination.