Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis...
by Bud on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:17PM
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You're right. Telling bullies "no" does risk that other bullies will leave your site. But that risk is already there.
And Facebook is already seen as political; that ship has sailed.
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis...
by gph on Thursday November 10, 2016 @03:28PM
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>And Facebook is already seen as political; that ship has sailed.
I don't think that's true. Certainly the extremes on each side will say that. But I think everyone in the middle doesn't. I don't. Certainly not in the same way as I see Fox News/CNN/MSNBC as political.
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis...
by Bud on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:22PM
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We're only talking about the extremes. We're talking about spurious pressure from alt-right media.
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis...
by dotnetisnotdead on Thursday November 10, 2016 @04:57PM
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It's funny that you don't think people marching in the streets, blocking traffic, screaming obscenities and destroying things right now aren't bullies.
Re:Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of mis...
by knowaveragejoe on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:49PM
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I think you're inferring something here that was never explicitly stated.
Second if you tell them to "Fuck off" you risk losing a significant chunk of your user base who believes their content and information is being manipulated against them. Facebook isn't in the politics business, they are in the social networking business. If Facebook is seen as political at all then a competing business will set up a service to sell to the other side. Look at what happened to mainstream media channels. Claims of liberal bias in the media giants directly led to the success of Fox News.