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Is shaping it by selectively removing it a form of control?

• banads 6y ago
  >control: the power to influence or direct people's behavior or the course of events
  • Avicebron 6y ago
    This is seems to indicate they are stepping into a form of control. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/every...
• root_axis 6y ago
  Operational control of a website does not equate to control of public discourse. Other things exist on the internet besides social media.
• mr_toad 6y ago
  Are you suggesting the President is incapable of other forms of communication?
  • Avicebron 6y ago
    Obviously not, I was asking whether or not algorithmic or otherwise selectively moderated could shape how millions of the public can communicate their ideas. Let alone thought leaders and others the public interacts with to guide societal questions and answers.