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"Full of himself"? Way too mild an indictment. In the last 24 hours Facebook bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it
by nickbauman 7y ago
"Full of himself"? Way too mild an indictment. In the last 24 hours Facebook bought a story in a publication, pretended it wasn’t sponsored, their COO posted it, then when they got caught, they denied knowing anything about it. And what was that ad/story about? Their commitment to stopping disinformation. All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers.
- cheschire 7y agoCitations to your references would be appreciated. It's the first step to overcoming the state of internet disinformation, as well as helping society overcome the fear of missing out just because someone doesn't already know your references.
- vijaybritto 7y agoHe's talking about the facebook-teenvogue story
- stingraycharles 7y agoNYT article about it here: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue...
- wtmt 7y agoUpvoted because even though I knew the context of that comment, I consider it poor form to expect everyone else on a public forum to keep up with every bit of daily news.
- Ensorceled 7y agoI don't think a current news event with lots of coverage, directly related to the topic at hand, requires research paper level footnotes.
- Ensorceled 7y agoI understand what you are saying, but this is a mainstream story, easily searchable with DDG from hints in the comment, covered by both Washington Post and New York Times as well as being splashed all over Business Insider, Mashable, The Verge, etc. etc. This is not the comment to be fighting this battle with.
- bennyg 7y agoYou spent so long typing out this reply without providing the citation, when you agree with the request for citations? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/08/business/media/teen-vogue... for those that are curious.
- Ensorceled 7y agoI agree with providing citations if the situation warrants it. This comment is an aside with a recent, topical, well covered and easily verifiable anecdote, a citation is not needed or warranted. This is NOT the hill for citation fanatics to die on. [edit] also another comment had already provided a citation, in fact the citation you provided, so you or I providing the citation was unnecessary so I don't understand your point
- GhettoMaestro 7y agoThank you. Most folks who do the “citation please” routine are derailing the conversation. Citation is needed for esoteric, hard to find, or over the top claims. For regular, mainstream, well reported events, citations aren’t needed. Google it for Christ’s sake.
- creaghpatr 7y agoThe first part of the comment is true, but then unfortunately used to prop up a false claim: >All the while we've learned that they have utterly sold the company to international electioneers. This is disinformation, laundered with the trust of the first comment.
- mlang23 7y agoYou might be interested in thss talk, in case you haven't heard about it yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXACRrzLMA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmXACRrzLMA
- ignoramous 7y agoAbstract: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10936-inside_the_fake_like_factories https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10936-inside_the_fake_like_facto... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913440
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- networkimprov 7y agoHighly successful entrepreneurs and investors (etc) are generally full of themselves. When in Rome...
- bla3 7y agoI don't disagree with your overall point, but this specific episode likely was just the usual big-company problem: https://twitter.com/felixsalmon/status/1215092889090392064 https://twitter.com/felixsalmon/status/1215092889090392064
- nickbauman 7y agoToo many concurrent problems of this sort for it to be just a big-co problem.