Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes

Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by threeseed on Friday February 14, 2020 @03:10PM (#22329895)

Journalists are human. They will make mistakes. They will by default trust people e.g. Smollett who may then turn out to be liars. But as a profession they do seek to be accountable e.g. multiple sources and ethical e.g. protecting sources at all cost.

Should we also not trust doctors, pilots, engineers, programmers etc because they also are infallible. What exactly do you want here ?

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by manfredo on Friday February 14, 2020 @06:09PM (#22331372)

The problem is when journalist make "mistakes" and are subsequently promoted. When Bloomberg made one of the biggest hacking accusations of the decade and failed to even remotely substantiate their claim that Apple and others were victims of a supply chain hack the journalists who wrote this story didn't get fired or disciplined. In fact one of the co-authors, Michael Riley, was promoted to be in charge of all of Bloomberg's technology security reporting.

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Re:Facebook reverses on paid influencers after Bloomberg memes by BrandonMarc on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:25PM (#22331885)

mistakes != agenda

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