Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside wealthy, western nations

Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by ch4s3 on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:23AM (#26779109)

This feels to me like a bit of a 1 dimensional appeal to authority. Consider the role of old guard media in selling the war in Iraq to the American public. Their pieces weren't well researched and turned out to have been fed to them by the administration. The Osama Bin Laden cave base diagrams also come to mind in the same vein. The NYT Daily's "Caliphate" podcast series is another great example.

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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by maxehmookau on Monday April 12, 2021 @09:33AM (#26779202)

Sure, I didn't suggest that they were unimpeachable but the "alternative" sources so often touted by self-proclaimed Facebook experts are orders of magnitude worse.

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Re:Facebook slow to address political manipulation outside w... by ch4s3 on Monday April 12, 2021 @01:46PM (#26782560)

I depends what you mean by "alternative sources". Lot's of places still have local papers that are pretty good for local news. There are international papers that have a different point of view to the American corporate press, which is quite useful from time to time. There's also good bit of quality opinion and some reporting on substack. And then there are some select reporters that have a narrow beat who do great work in their niche, but may work for a place that is overall questionable.

American news consumers should be critical, and pay attention to times when major competing news outlets are running the same headline about a complicated story.

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