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Zuckerberg says breaking up Facebook “isn’t going to help”
- WheelsAtLarge 7y agoHe might be right that breaking up Facebook, the company, might not help. But breaking up the different platforms will. Each individual platform is too big. They all need to be reduced. It seems that managing information at a gigantic scale is a bad thing. After all WhatsApp on its own has been blamed for causing problems in India and Myanmar and Facebook in many countries. Breaking up Facebook the company is not enough. The inability to control what kind of misinformation can be put on the different platforms is a problem that facebook as a company can't control. They want to use AI to solve the problem but even humans have problems figuring out how to deal with the information we read; how can software be able to do it. The problem is due to scale. The same characteristics of social media that make it a great and cheap advertising platform makes it a great tool to distribute misinformation. Zuckerberg is trying to save the company so his opinions are tainted so whatever he says should be taken with caution.
- mimixco 7y agoIMHO, FB has a problem worse than their scale. It's their complete lack of morality of any kind. The fastest way to fix it is to permanently delete your account.