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Facebook selects and controls what users see. Facebook chooses to promote disinformation over your friend’s cat pictures because it drives more engagements and
by beagle3 6y ago
Facebook selects and controls what users see.
Facebook chooses to promote disinformation over your friend’s cat pictures because it drives more engagements and thus more money.
They are totally responsible for that content, even if this is an emergent property of optimizing for money algorithmically aNd no explicit editorializing takes place.
Their users may be dumb f&cks[0] but Facebook is not a dumb pipe.
[0] Zuckerberg’s words, not mine.
- Dansvidania 6y agoI also do not like the fact that Facebook "optimizes" the content shown to users, and would rather just have no Algorithm at all, but that seems to me like a different (although possibly related) problem.
- beagle3 6y agoIt would force users to curate and would reduce time spent on FB - both positive outcomes in my book. The way most people use Facebook is “friend everyone and let god^H^H^H zuck sort it out”. (Not a Facebook user myself)