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“Hate” feels like a strange word to employ here. Is the reporting false? You seem to be suggesting that it is (“they sincerely believe”) but I’m yet to see a re

“Hate” feels like a strange word to employ here. Is the reporting false? You seem to be suggesting that it is (“they sincerely believe”) but I’m yet to see a rebuttal to the revelations in the Facebook papers. There’s a trove of leaked internal documents. Are they faked? I think there’s a reflexive kind of “independent” mindedness that’s actually very collective: the assumption that everything the mass media publishes is false. The correct independent minded approach is to examine the evidence provided. From my analysis I’m not sure what’s fake here.

convexfunction 5y ago
As usual, the reporting I've seen hasn't involved any provably false claims that I've noticed, but it's been framed and selectively reported in such a way (again, probably mostly-sincerely) that most readers end up very misled. e.g., I think the internal study that found that a small fraction of teenagers reporting suicidal ideation said that the first trigger that came to mind was stuff they saw on Instagram on a survey was just insanely over-interpreted to mean that a world without Instagram would have less misery in teenagers, and I think that FB's decision to decline to publish a finding of an internal study that'll be predictably over-interepted in the media isn't really described well as a "cover up". "Hate" in the sense of "ideologues being haters as usual", not like "KKK members".