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Perhaps, given the situation with Twitter, now "X", more web and mobile app users will come to understand that despite its size, Facebook is someone's personal
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
Perhaps, given the situation with Twitter, now "X", more web and mobile app users will come to understand that despite its size, Facebook is someone's personal website. Like "X", one person has control. Zuckerberg controls over 51% of the company's voting shares. Meta is not a news organization. It has no responsibility to uphold journalistic standards. It does not produce news; in fact, it produces no content at all. It is a leech, a parasite, an unnecessary intermediary that is wholly reliant on news content produced by someone else being requested through its servers.
- megous 2y agoNews organizations have no responsibility either. And I don't see why publisher of news even if they just re-publish should not be held to some responsibilities, like eg. abstaining from nefarious manipulation of content people see on their platform.
- timeon 2y agoNot sure about US but unlike Facebook, news publishers are regulated by law where I live.
- xvector 2y agoAs if actual journalists care to uphold "journalistic standards." X/FB is far more trustworthy than the legacy news media, which happily censors salient stories at the request of the government and pushes very specific agendas that are totally out of touch with the average voter. I can't even count how many times I've seen literal video evidence for a story on X that the news media twists or refuses to cover.
- blitzar 2y agoI can't even count how many times I've seen literal video evidence for a story on X that was from totally unrelated incident but claimed to be proof of a completely made up thing that was happening right now.