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Legal and free speech issues aside, on Twitter I’m subscribed to an account that posts the ‘Top 10 most engaged articles/accounts on FB this week’ lists and it’
by thundergolfer 6y ago
Legal and free speech issues aside, on Twitter I’m subscribed to an account that posts the ‘Top 10 most engaged articles/accounts on FB this week’ lists and it’s just damning how dominant hateful far-m right content is.
I get the idea of joining Facebook to do excellent engineering work, but for most at the company the outcome of all that excellent engineering is more people spending more time engaging with ‘Obama is a secret Muslim’ and QAnon type articles.
I hope Ashok finds good work at a quality company soon.
- anoncareer0212 6y agonailed it - same thing utterly convinced me, observing the top daily stories over time makes you clear-eyed. it's no different than when i was 7, at the grocery store, and wouldn't stop asking my mom why tabloids were sold on the checkout lane caps if they were made up lies about conspiracies they don't sell them on the checkout caps anymore
- ianbicking 6y agoWhat's the Twitter account?
- thundergolfer 6y agoIt’s @FacebooksTop10 and it’s run by Kevin Roose who is a tech writer for NYT. He focuses some of his time on how hate speech and conspiracy theories thrive on Facebook, which is pretty interesting.
- ryathal 6y agoFacebook is the one major social network not censoring the right. The left doesn't make the top 10 because they are far too diffuse among other networks, but no less hateful. Reddit is actively working towards censoring anything right of Hilary and barely tolerating anything right of Bernie. Twitter is actively suppressing the POTUS. Far left views get diluted between Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit.