Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus group

Re:Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus g... by stinkytaco on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @03:57PM (#13699862)

> But extremist people with odious political views were and are forming their own social networks without FB and have been for years

Judging by the Facebook feeds of people I know, there seems to be plenty on Facebook.

I thie problem is less stamping out extremist views -- which as you point out is impossible -- but the maintstreaming of those views. And that mainstreaming is done at least partially via the Facebook sharing mechanism.

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Re:Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Democracy is not a Facebook focus g... by anigbrowl on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:32PM (#13701281)

I agree about the mainstreaming but I think FB is just the current easiest platform for that, like AOL in days past and Compuserve before that. People are always going to gravitate to the single largest platform with the most consistent UI and the simplest onboarding, but I argue the underlying social synamic is platform-neutral.

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