Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of social norms

Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by dx034 on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:34AM (#14558354)

> Imagine if one-fifth of the entire global population read the same newspaper every morning. Imagine if that same newspaper also operated the largest espionage network in the history of humanity.

That's not a valid comparison since Facebook doesn't publish their own content. It can promote unfiltered news (that often turn out not to be true) but it's not as if the same news story would be read by 1bn people each day.

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by jdietrich on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:45AM (#14558391)

Facebook decide what you do or don't see, based on completely opaque algorithms and human filtering. They're not the journalists, they're the editor.

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by ThrustVectoring on Thursday June 15, 2017 @03:42AM (#14558583)

The comparison is friendly for Facebook, IMO. If Facebook pushes an agenda, the most obvious way to do so is through manipulating the order and appearance of items in the news feed. Facebook pushing an agenda will look like particular kinds of political content becoming more important to your friends.

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Re:Facebook’s Safety Check is a stress-inducing flip of soci... by colordrops on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:36AM (#14558358)

You are missing the entire point of the analogy.

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