Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up

Re:Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Gov... by ndarwincorn on Friday July 26, 2019 @04:53PM (#20538243)

For Mozilla, that's likely a conflict on interest between their search deal (which AFAIK is their primary source of income) with Google and the hardline privacy/FOSS direction they're moving toward.

I'm shocked no one pointed out the why of news media though. It's not about statists liking Google and not FB, and it's not about headline clicks (well, it is but there's more to it than just company name in headline = more clicks).

Eighteen months ago[1] Facebook effectively depublished news/journalism sites. Almost overnight, major news media outlets started publishing anti-Facebook articles and it hasn't stopped since.

I'm not going to cry about disproportionate media attention unless this yellow journalism results in Facebook getting trust-busted but not the other monopolists.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/11/facebook-...

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Re:Chris Hughes, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Gov... by mastazi on Sunday July 28, 2019 @10:39PM (#20551126)

Yes I was wondering if it could be connected to the Facebook News Feed changes, and it is also worth pointing out that, conversely, many news sources use Google News actively and at least part of their traffic depends on it.

PS regarding Mozilla: as you correctly noted, their focus on privacy and their deal with Google are at odds. I guess the deal is good in terms of money but it doesn't look good in terms of PR and could be damaging in the long term, I think they should do something about it.

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