Re:A growing number of early Facebook employees regret the w...
by CharlesW on Saturday November 11, 2017 @01:28PM
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> I think people are confusing two things: Facebook and its first and main product, the News Feed…
I think that's naive and misses the forest for the trees. You may be technically correct (as you would be saying "people are confusing Google and its search engine"), but none of that structural pedantry relieves Facebook of any responsibility over its obliviousness about how it's affecting society.
> Facebook changed their core values over what happened during the campaign.
No, Facebook's change of heart has been slow, incomplete, and didn't begin until well after the campaign ended.
> Facebook is not responsible for Trump’s election…
They (obviously?) are to some degree, so I find that a very bizarre thing to say. It's likely that even Facebook doesn't yet understand the full scope of their election influence.
I think that's naive and misses the forest for the trees. You may be technically correct (as you would be saying "people are confusing Google and its search engine"), but none of that structural pedantry relieves Facebook of any responsibility over its obliviousness about how it's affecting society.
> Facebook changed their core values over what happened during the campaign.
No, Facebook's change of heart has been slow, incomplete, and didn't begin until well after the campaign ended.
> Facebook is not responsible for Trump’s election…
They (obviously?) are to some degree, so I find that a very bizarre thing to say. It's likely that even Facebook doesn't yet understand the full scope of their election influence.