Message from @pratel
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They need the ad bucks
Compare Reddit 2012 to Reddit 2018.
They're hitting middle strides. Trying to take pressure off.
Well the discussion is about curration and its scale
So what is facebook going to start basically shadowbanning people? I find that far worse than outright censorship and banning
Some people say they already do.
Its harder to prove
They do it in some cases
Facebook is a very bad actor on many occasions
They like to give info to dictators and such
People have been forcing narratives to enact change through cultural artificial selection for a long time now, but at the risk of sounding hyperbolic lately it's been ramping up to cultural genocide, or memocide I suppose
Yep
Breitbart is always sketchy, but they claim there have been pages banned.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/06/16/facebook-shadowbans-page-mapping-migrant-refugee-crimes/
The Gateway Pundit is also fairly sketchy but are saying they are seeing massive drops in engagement.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/shock-study-facebook-has-eliminated-93-of-traffic-to-top-conservative-websites-since-2016-election/
Not sure how accurate this is, but there's not much a priori reason to doubt Facebook is playing games either.
Ofc they are
And if zuc runs for president you are going to see some shit yet
I can say I know some social media types and they have a definite flavor to them and 'Fake News' is very much a hot area of research right now in the spaces where FB and Google operate.
Lol
Zucc won't run at this point. He's made too many enemies.
Well the Cambridge analytica scandal dmged him
But he could still run imo
Honestly they dont have anyone else who could stop bernie at this point
And i highly doubt dnc wants bernie to run
Bernie's out.
They could even try for the oprah meme
Also, interesting article for those who get concerned by Google and FB.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/how-google-could-rig-the-2016-election-121548
Just to spite him
Oprah said no
Old. But still troubling in a way.
Yeah google has massive power to rig
Thats why them behaving progressive is worriing
It's kind of really scary how much power they have.
And with all their investments into AI one day they could one day own the majority of the work force.
That's far too much power for one corporation to have.
They could do far more.
As it stands, Google and Facebook have more information on private citizens than anyone in the history of humanity.
Think about what has happened in police states and you can start to see the problem.
Google, Reddit, et al. Pushed Net Neutrality, but it would only have applied to the telecoms.
Ironic, then, that when discussing Net Neutrality it originally was applied heavily to them.