Re:Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life
by seisvelas on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:59AM
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Indeed, and although it would sound silly to us, a lot of journalists are surprisingly bitter over the 'learn to code' meme-debacle of just several months ago. When the journalism bubble burst the success of tech was used to humiliate journalists. They won't be kinder when our bubble bursts.
Re:Don’t Trust Facebook with Your Love Life
by whalabi on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:18PM
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(as an aside, "that learn to code" jeer to journalists - without whom democracy can't exist - is disgusting)
Implying that journalism has no value and people should mechanically make.. accounting software apps for a large organisation instead of uncovering and presenting information about those in power is hideous.
It's no surprise that Trump supporters are all over it.
The tipping poing was the Trump victory. Before the election the NYT and other mainstream media outlets were trumpeting how much better/hipper the DNC was at using social platforms to organize voters than the Republican party. If Clinton would have won, this characterization would have remained and anybody complaning about Russian interference in elections would have been branded a McCarthyist.