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You’ve been reading Rene Girard it would seem. And he’s a good guide to what’s going on: they were all at it, but Zuck is soaking up the blame not just for the
by GreeniFi 8y ago
You’ve been reading Rene Girard it would seem. And he’s a good guide to what’s going on: they were all at it, but Zuck is soaking up the blame not just for the ills of the social media biz model but the ills of late capitalism.
- Zelphyr 8y agoHe may be soaking up undeserved blame but a lot of it is deserved. He has demonstrated time and again that he has little care for user privacy when that got in the way of selling an ad. People are (hopefully) starting to wake up to how dangerous that is.
- pm90 8y agoI think its the danger part that was not sufficiently recognized and is only now being realized. When the personal data was used to sell soap, nobody really cared. When its used to instead sell political agenda and conspiracy theories... that is when the danger starts.
- aylmao 8y agoTo be fair, it has always been used to sell political agendas. Politicians have advertised in online platforms way before 2016.
- pm90 8y ago> To be fair, it has always been used to sell political agendas. Politicians have advertised in online platforms way before 2016. Agreed. Perhaps a better way to phrase it is that its only in 2016 that the true power of the platform to spread misinformation with a political agenda was realized. Which naturally people care about a lot more than product placements.
- GreeniFi 8y agoFor sure it’s deserved, but as is often the case with scapegoats, FB is not the only one. The Gusrdian collects and sells used data to advertisers, for example.