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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by hodgesrm on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:09PM (#18943568)
The role of Facebook in events like the Rohingya persecutions is a lot harder to write off than opinions about US electoral results. [0] There is a good argument that Facebook--like many--failed to foresee the misuse of social networks but for business reasons then failed to act on that knowledge once it became more obvious.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebo...

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by m0zg on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:12PM (#18943591)
That's not an argument against FB per se. That's an argument against anything social-network-like in general, because there's nothing that makes FB uniquely suitable. If anything, because of its vast resources and investment in AI, FB is better positioned to respond to adversarial use.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by rhizome on Friday January 18, 2019 @05:21PM (#18943659)
>That's an argument against anything social-network-like in general, because there's nothing that makes FB uniquely suitable.

Then why did they choose FB when there are so many other group-chat type websites out there? I mean, Friendster is still around, or LinkedIn, or...

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by manfredo on Friday January 18, 2019 @08:23PM (#18944653)
Probably because it simply has the biggest userbase.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by Apocryphon on Saturday January 19, 2019 @11:43AM (#18947811)
Doesn’t that provide a rationale to promote many different social media networks instead of one big one that could be used for such nefarious purposes?
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by m0zg on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:10PM (#18949197)
If they're not federated, I don't see how they are useful as "social networks". If they are federated, I don't see how having many of them would solve the problem.
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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by rhizome on Saturday January 19, 2019 @04:27PM (#18949281)
Isn't that a quality that makes them "uniquely suitable?" I was trying to unwind GP's statement.
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