Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool

Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by icu on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @11:43AM (#17707639)

I became deeply concerned when the article seemed to suggest that Gizmodo was more worried about losing their Facebook page, or being sued, than sticking to a high standard of journalistic integrity. By the sound of things Gizmodo was saved by a Cambridge Analytica deus ex machina.

I can't help but think that there will be ever more regulation because of it.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by eropple on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:25PM (#17708034)

Y'all know that that Facebook page is part of the income stream that helps them keep the lights on for that journalism, right? And that getting sued is a fast way to no longer being able to do that journalism?

The problem it should raise for you is letting overwhelmingly omnipresent companies chill journalism in this way, not that the journalists worry about being chilled.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by icu on Friday August 10, 2018 @12:28AM (#17730674)

Not sure I agree, it's the job of the 4th estate to speak truth to power, that is why it is afforded special privileges and protections.

If you predicate your ability to speak truth to power on a business model that relies on the power structure you are criticizing you undermine your raison d'être.

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by eropple on Friday August 10, 2018 @01:54PM (#17735417)

Cool. So what's your solution when private businesses are busily making sure that those "special privileges and protections" don't mean anything to the people who have to hear you speaking truth to power?

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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by icu on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @04:45AM (#17756335)

I hear your criticism... I personally don't have a solution as news media isn't my area of domain. However, there must be a technical solution to the problem. I've seen one or two HN threads discussing a decentralised web. Perhaps that's indeed the solution?

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