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Where is this bad, addictive content coming from? Isn't that all content from a list of people or businesses that you green-list yourself?

• josephg 6y ago
  Sure; but if facebook shows me 1% of all the content from people I follow, it exerts a huge amount of editorial power. And it doesn't use that editorial power to serve users. It uses that power to keep people addicted to the site so they can sell more advertisements. The fact that my friendships are weaponized doesn't make facebook any less culpable. I'm a pretty nice guy. But if you made a supercut of 1% of what I say in a day, you could tell any story you like. It would be my words, but its your narrative.
  • threatofrain 6y ago
    What is the extent of FB's ability to craft narrative? What is the most egregious example of FB editorializing? It should be easy for people to find examples online with over 2B users.
    • bleepblorp 6y ago
      The degree of confidence in your dismissal is odd given how prominently Facebook's emotional manipulation experiment has been covered by major market media outlets. See, e.g.: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-apologises-psychological-experiments-on-users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-...
    • kthejoker2 6y ago
      Did you not RTFA? Read the section on Britain First again. Its entire premise is Facebook has created an enormous amount of carveouts and tolerances for hate speech and divisive content to protect revenue and growth.