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My comment is a reply to "FB employees, how do you ...". So I do feel like my weighing in here is appropriate. > how you can assemble ... and also pressure th

• ALittleLight 6y ago
  It completely undermines the idea of independent arbiters if they actually are not independent but under direction. To represent that fact checkers are "independent" while you give them direction is immoral. This isn't comparable to a speechwriter, where there would be no pretense of impartiality, but more like you hired a referee for a contest and when you didn't like the outcome you told the referee to change it. Regarding your weighing in, I didn't mean to suggest that it was inappropriate or uncalled for, but simply not needed. Obviously the reason that Facebook employees would work for an organization that does immoral things is because they consider it, on net, to their benefit to do so and not because of some secret obscure reason where transparently immoral actions are somehow moral.
  • mgraczyk 6y ago
    It has nothing to do with benefit, if you look at my comment history you'll find I believed the same thing when the fact checking was introduced, years before working there. I've discussed this with probably dozens of people who feel the same, none of whom work at FB. Just because you believe something is "transparently immoral" doesn't mean everyone agrees with you.