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Criticism of Facebook fall into the following buckets: - Unethical use of UI dark patterns to make users (mostly the young and the elderly) unwittingly over-sh
by resters 8y ago
Criticism of Facebook fall into the following buckets:
- Unethical use of UI dark patterns to make users (mostly the young and the elderly) unwittingly over-share.
- Unethical design of the news feed algorithm to bias certain kinds of consumer behavior.
- Unethical stewardship of private data harvested from users (this article is an example)
- Abuse of market share toward anti-competitive ends.
- The absence of warrant canaries on individual accounts, and compliance with questionable law enforcement requests for private data.
And then the new upcoming one:
- Unethical modification of the news feed algorithm to promote political views deemed favorable, and demote political views deemed unfavorable.