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> The best I can come up with is that Facebook is so big that the "evil" is an emergent property of all the different things that are happening > so while the
by vineyardmike 5y ago
> The best I can come up with is that Facebook is so big that the "evil" is an emergent property of all the different things that are happening
> so while the individuals involved have good intentions with what they are working on, the sum total of all employees' intentions ends up broken.
I think, honestly, that a huge thing is that when you put together basically the entirety of the internet, and society into a giant conversational feedback loop you're bound to spin out the worst, especially if FB wasn't 100% of the time trying to filter it (which they weren't because its a business and the problems weren't always equally known).