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Is an Activist’s Pricey House News? Facebook Alone Decides

25 points by jbegley 6y ago

foolzcrow 6y ago
Absolutely, when they claim to be a trained Marxist that doesn't believe in capitalism. That proves she loves capatalism and would never actually live a marxist life. Marxism is her hustle for dumb whites on the left.
siruncledrew 6y ago
I’m not a fan of muckraking and clickbait in modern journalism, but Facebook’s opaque policies and secrets around news seem more ridiculous the more they get brought up. Naively (not in practice but in theory), I would think the spirit of news and communication would be letting the readers decide, rather than let an entity (government or corporation) decide for the public. Facebook is the hand that feeds, and they hold the upper hand in having the ability to leverage news/consumers/publishers in whatever ways they can. Considering even politicians could be getting their news from Facebook, imagine the potential for subtle manipulation of what certain groups see or don’t see. Show everything positive about Facebook and hide all the negatives. Prevent content from being posted or shared that could hurt Facebook’s business. Shift the blame and make up a technical statement to sell to regulators like “even we, at Facebook, don’t have any control over our policies and there’s a whole magical system of electrons and servers moving your news around behind the curtain of Oz and it’s so complicated it would be impossible to explain.”
- zibzab 6y ago
  > I would think the spirit of news and communication would be letting the readers decide... While it sounds very good in theory, we both know the readers are not qualified enough to distinguish between fact and nonsense. If enough big newspapers tell people 5G causes covid, eventually a majority will believe it is so. You need aan independent entity that removes incorrect information, but it must be just and transparent.
redis_mlc 6y ago
The leaders of the BLM organization are admitted, proud Marxists. Info on Patrisse Khan-Cullors' multiple house purchases: https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/ https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse... One house is suspected to be more than $5 million. Her only statement has been, "I bought them for my family."
zibzab 6y ago
I think this is something we all can agree on "There’s something depressing about an internet in which you’re left choosing between Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Murdoch, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s director of strategy, Danny O’Brien, pointed out to me. It didn’t have to be that way."

25 points by jbegley 6y ago

Absolutely, when they claim to be a trained Marxist that doesn't believe in capitalism. That proves she loves capatalism and would never actually live a marxist life. Marxism is her hustle for dumb whites on the left.

siruncledrew 6y ago

I’m not a fan of muckraking and clickbait in modern journalism, but Facebook’s opaque policies and secrets around news seem more ridiculous the more they get brought up. Naively (not in practice but in theory), I would think the spirit of news and communication would be letting the readers decide, rather than let an entity (government or corporation) decide for the public. Facebook is the hand that feeds, and they hold the upper hand in having the ability to leverage news/consumers/publishers in whatever ways they can. Considering even politicians could be getting their news from Facebook, imagine the potential for subtle manipulation of what certain groups see or don’t see. Show everything positive about Facebook and hide all the negatives. Prevent content from being posted or shared that could hurt Facebook’s business. Shift the blame and make up a technical statement to sell to regulators like “even we, at Facebook, don’t have any control over our policies and there’s a whole magical system of electrons and servers moving your news around behind the curtain of Oz and it’s so complicated it would be impossible to explain.”

zibzab 6y ago
> I would think the spirit of news and communication would be letting the readers decide... While it sounds very good in theory, we both know the readers are not qualified enough to distinguish between fact and nonsense. If enough big newspapers tell people 5G causes covid, eventually a majority will believe it is so. You need aan independent entity that removes incorrect information, but it must be just and transparent.

redis_mlc 6y ago

The leaders of the BLM organization are admitted, proud Marxists. Info on Patrisse Khan-Cullors' multiple house purchases: https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/ https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse... One house is suspected to be more than $5 million. Her only statement has been, "I bought them for my family."

zibzab 6y ago

I think this is something we all can agree on "There’s something depressing about an internet in which you’re left choosing between Mr. Zuckerberg and Mr. Murdoch, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s director of strategy, Danny O’Brien, pointed out to me. It didn’t have to be that way."