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> Facebook received largely anodyne coverage for most of its life; it's only been the last few years that people took a critical eye. No way. You're totally fo
by toomim 8y ago
> Facebook received largely anodyne coverage for most of its life; it's only been the last few years that people took a critical eye.
No way. You're totally forgetting how much fear the media heaped on Facebook in 2005 first over children having (gasp) photos of themselves on the internet, some people even listing their phone numbers publicly, and then in 2006 and 2007 it was about college kids posting photos of themselves drinking alcohol, which (it was hypothesized) would prevent them from getting jobs when their future employer went through their facebook account.
Please. The media narrative around Facebook has been exaggerated fear from the beginning. The only thing new today is the choice of fear to exaggerate.
- spamizbad 8y agoThe examples you give are all “people behaving badly” on Facebook, not Facebook explicitly acting in bad faith.
- behavingbadly 8y agoHere is one (of many examples.) Facebook COO Sandberg hires a right-wing firm to spread rumors and shift blame onto George Soros. This isnt just bad behavior -- this is abhorrent. George Soros gets bears brunt of anti-semitism (recall just weeks ago a rightist sent him a bomb due to propaganda blaming him for literally everything.) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-russia-election-racism.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/14/technology/facebook-data-... Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.
- toomim 8y agoExactly! That was my point.