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Well then, neither is running anything other than a time stamped feed of posts from my friends, but they do far more than that already.
by oneoff1777711 6y ago
Well then, neither is running anything other than a time stamped feed of posts from my friends, but they do far more than that already.
- Spivak 6y agoIf literally all Facebook did was what you describe nothing would change about their effect on elections and public discourse.
- smt88 6y agoThey have an aggressive and dangerous recommendation algorithm that has proven easy to game by bad actors.
- mcintyre1994 6y agoFacebook has studied extremism on their platform and they disagree: > The high number of extremist groups was concerning, the presentation says. Worse was Facebook’s realization that its algorithms were responsible for their growth. The 2016 presentation states that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools” and that most of the activity came from the platform’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” algorithms: “Our recommendation systems grow the problem.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499 https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-di...
- Spivak 6y agoI really don't know how you solve this problem because finding people like you is like the #2 reason you even join a social network. Same with IRL social networks. I can't even imagine how much worse my life without the online queer community, it only exists at all because these kinds of algorithms connect people who would never find each other IRL because of fear and physical separation. Plus this is a very narrow interpretation of the problem. The public discourse issues comes from friends, family, friends-of-friends sharing and spreading articles from the news, obviously fake rage-bait memes, and generally just having an audience for their opinions.