Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site less divisive

Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by baq on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @05:57PM (#23316910)

i have a fundamental issue calling a content-curating, psychological-experiment-running platform visited by hundreds of millions of people daily 'someone else's website'. the fact that it is privately owned doesn't matter if nation states use it to wage information wars against other nation states' citizens. to make matters worse, the 'someone else' in question knows about it perfectly well and is fine with it because it means he's showing more ads.

this is plain and simple fucked up.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by pwdisswordfish2 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @06:20PM (#23317119)

Well, that is what it is. No one knew a single website could grow so large, but it did. Even though there are thousands of people working for its owner, when reading articles like the OP we are reminded how much control he still has over it. No doubt he still thinks of it as his personal creation. Of course, "99.99999%" of the content is not his. Perhaps most of the people who sign up on Facebook are not employed by nation states but just ordinary people who want an easy way to stay connected to friends and family. Maybe these people should have a better way to stay connected than using a public website.

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Re:Facebook executives shut down efforts to make the site le... by baq on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:08AM (#23324498)

indeed this happened but that's hardly a reason to let it continue to be.

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