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This is why social media censorship is so dangerous, even despite the blatant partisanship from a DNC operative working as a senior manager at Facebook. Storie
by 0xy 5y ago
This is why social media censorship is so dangerous, even despite the blatant partisanship from a DNC operative working as a senior manager at Facebook.
Stories that damage the established world order are suppressed and "fact-checked" (by biased partisan organizations, or worse, literal operatives working at these companies).
These organizations are looking a lot more like political machines as every day passes. They have their fingers on the scales in a multitude of respects. Google by boosting and deboosting certain political content, Facebook through algorithm manipulation, shadowbans and banning and Twitter through hashtag suppression, "trending" manipulation, "fact checks" and banning.
- angelzen 5y agoWhat do people expect? The centralization of power in DC made it susceptible to lobbying, with well documented deleterious effects. The centralization of information reins in the hands of a handful mega-corporations makes them targets of the same kind of corruption, if not worse since there are no FOIA requests. US needs at least 50 Googles/Facebooks if not multiple that number to even begin address the problem. Which will never happen short of some miraculous reincarnation of Teddy Roosevelt because network effects and economies of scale are impossible to fight against.