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What's with all this defense of facebook in the comments on hacker news lately?
by lordfoom 8y ago
What's with all this defense of facebook in the comments on hacker news lately?
- merpnderp 8y agoTwo wrongs don’t make a right? It’s possible for both the media and Facebook to have faults.
- randiantech 8y agoWorld is not black and white. You can always criticize Facebook for their brutal user information sharing practises, or lack of curation to try to avoid fake news. But at the same time its possible to recognize that not everything on FB is fake news. Or in this particular case, that letting people share and communicate is not reprehensible.
- tonyedgecombe 8y agoThey employ a lot of programmers, I imagine at least some of them are here.
- ceejayoz 8y agoNot to mention PR firms. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-hired-firm-house-fake-news-shop-combat-pr-crisis-n936591 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-hired-firm-h...
- ahje 8y agoThe issue described in the article is not an issue with Facebook. Filter bubbles are an issue that's much larger than Facebook. Blaming it all on Facebook would mean we ignore the fact that they also exist elsewhere.
- lucozade 8y agoI'd argue it's more a defence of accuracy than Facebook per se. Just because you don't like a person or company or country or whatever doesn't mean that it's reasonable to accuse them of all the ills of the world. I'd even argue that it can be detrimental. If you get enough "Facebook killed my puppy" stories, folk will start ignoring stories about Facebook and miss the stuff that's genuinely a problem.