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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by tremon on Thursday December 10, 2020 @06:25AM (#25372500)
Facebook is not a journalist, it's a communications platform.

That's just mincing words. Facebook is very much a communications platform that determines what its users get to see. In that sense, Facebook exercises editorial control over its content, and to its users it makes no difference whether that control is automated or manual. Therefore it doesn't matter whether we classify Facebook as a "journalist", the damage done by Facebook's editorial control is the same.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by AnthonyMouse on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:10PM (#25380604)
> That's just mincing words.

It isn't. A journalist is choosing what they themselves say out of their own mouths. Anybody attributing everything that third party speakers say via Facebook as the official position of Facebook is false.

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