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Users Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook

18 points by laurex 6y ago

a3n 6y ago
People won't come back if their bubble isn't maintained.
MikeUt 6y ago
> nonpartisan outlets [..] like [..] The New York Times The New York Times is so nonpartisan that they remove race references from a title if the incident turns out to be a hoax: A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks at a Playground - https://web.archive.org/web/20190927202007/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/dreadlocks-cut-off-immanuel-christian-school.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190927202007/https://www.nytim... Update: Virginia Girl Recants Story of Assault, and Family Apologizes - https://web.archive.org/web/20191001003852/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/dreadlocks-cut-off-immanuel-christian-school.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191001003852/https://www.nytim...
- harry8 6y ago
  Partisan? Don't all of us claim to be against racsim? Were the classmates Democrats or something? Both of those are terrible headlines.
- Simulacra 6y ago
  I think the New York Times itself would say it's a partisan, left leaning newspaper. That's like calling Fox News, or CNN nonpartisan.
Kim_Bruning 6y ago
I have a feeling that these algorithms feeding different people different news feeds probably has some bearing on the state current affairs. It especially makes it hard to predict what any particular person or group of people will do next, since you may not know what they are seeing or how they are framing things. This makes division almost inevitable, and reconciliation becomes very difficult.
- loopz 6y ago
  Not just algos. Read Fox News, and they're now "leftist". Comments are different now though, so it's all editorialized and the public sees through it.
millzlane 6y ago
They know what they're doing. "Facebook says the huge psychological experiment it secretly conducted on its users should have been “done differently” and announced a new set of guidelines for how it will approach future research studies." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-sorry-secret-psychological-experiment-users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...
dominicjj 6y ago
Aren't we banning political stories this week?
- harry8 6y ago
  This is a story about the one of the largest silicon valley tech firms and one that the incumbent government believes has monopoly power. It doesn't matter to this story which party you vote for (or ignore).

18 points by laurex 6y ago

a3n 6y ago

People won't come back if their bubble isn't maintained.

> nonpartisan outlets [..] like [..] The New York Times The New York Times is so nonpartisan that they remove race references from a title if the incident turns out to be a hoax: A Black Virginia Girl Says White Classmates Cut Her Dreadlocks at a Playground - https://web.archive.org/web/20190927202007/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/dreadlocks-cut-off-immanuel-christian-school.html https://web.archive.org/web/20190927202007/https://www.nytim... Update: Virginia Girl Recants Story of Assault, and Family Apologizes - https://web.archive.org/web/20191001003852/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/27/us/dreadlocks-cut-off-immanuel-christian-school.html https://web.archive.org/web/20191001003852/https://www.nytim...

harry8 6y ago
Partisan? Don't all of us claim to be against racsim? Were the classmates Democrats or something? Both of those are terrible headlines.
Simulacra 6y ago
I think the New York Times itself would say it's a partisan, left leaning newspaper. That's like calling Fox News, or CNN nonpartisan.

Kim_Bruning 6y ago

I have a feeling that these algorithms feeding different people different news feeds probably has some bearing on the state current affairs. It especially makes it hard to predict what any particular person or group of people will do next, since you may not know what they are seeing or how they are framing things. This makes division almost inevitable, and reconciliation becomes very difficult.

loopz 6y ago
Not just algos. Read Fox News, and they're now "leftist". Comments are different now though, so it's all editorialized and the public sees through it.

millzlane 6y ago

They know what they're doing. "Facebook says the huge psychological experiment it secretly conducted on its users should have been “done differently” and announced a new set of guidelines for how it will approach future research studies." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-sorry-secret-psychological-experiment-users https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...

dominicjj 6y ago

Aren't we banning political stories this week?

harry8 6y ago
This is a story about the one of the largest silicon valley tech firms and one that the incumbent government believes has monopoly power. It doesn't matter to this story which party you vote for (or ignore).