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The Facebook amplification was relatively minor here. They 'amplified' it to 4000 people and acted quickly to limit the amplification. The real amplification
by aeternus 8y ago
The Facebook amplification was relatively minor here. They 'amplified' it to 4000 people and acted quickly to limit the amplification.
The real amplification was caused by people, not by platforms. The amazing stat here is that a staggering 1.5 million people attempted to re-uploaded it.
Suppose the attacker uploaded it to 8chan instead? I doubt the final numbers would be much different. People are going to decide for themselves whether or not they want to watch something on the internet.
- panarky 8y agoThat's what the deceptive Facebook PR would lead us to believe. It's very carefully worded to give that impression, but it doesn't actually say that. Facebook provided that specific and meaningless fact to distract us from the truly important facts that they're still hiding. (1) How many minutes from the beginning of the livestream until the last re-uploaded copy was removed? (2) How many Facebook users viewed even part of the livestream or any of the re-uploaded copies? The answers are likely (1) thousands of minutes and (2) millions of views. Naturally these two numbers are not to be found anywhere in Facebook's deceptive explanation. Facebook let 300k people re-upload the video without being stopped at upload. Facebook pushed it to their friends, and when their friends interacted with it Facebook pushed it to friends of friends. That fanout push to feeds isn't comparable to 8chan.