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2 Points: Underscoring that facebook is not now, nor was it ever a good source of news is a very good thing. Don't get your news from facebook. Don't get it via
by harry8 6y ago
2 Points: Underscoring that facebook is not now, nor was it ever a good source of news is a very good thing. Don't get your news from facebook. Don't get it via facebook. Anything on facebook that isn't actually personal is tainted and horrible to be treated with extreme suspicion. Facebook have earned that reputation and deserve it.
People going elsewhere on the internet than facebook to get news will reduce facebook engagment, use and get people in the habit of not going to facebook first.
Bring it on. Facebook are horrific. The less they do the better. Especially given they apparently won't do anything about being used for violent organisation.
About the only organisation guaranteed to be more wrong than the Australian Government about literally everyting is Facebook.
[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/28/21406022/facebook-banned-violent-militia-groups-kenosha-protests-jacob-blake-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/8/28/21406022/facebook-banne...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebook.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...
- jedberg 6y agoI get lots of news from Facebook. My friends who I trust post articles that they've read. It's a perfectly fine source of news if your friends are the kind of people who actually think critically and read the articles. If the news you get from Facebook is suspect, it's your friends that are the problem, not Facebook.
- harry8 6y agoyou get that news from your friends that facebook algorithms deign to show you. They have algorithms to influence. They have said so. They were trying to manipulate people's mood with it for "research" This isn't contraversial. It's a garbage source of news because of that filter. Even if your friends are lovely, wise, empathetic, intelligent and critically minded and their editorial selection is beyond reproach - that isn't what you get.