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Re:Facebook Shuts Down Researchers Looking into Misinformation by Nevermark on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:46PM (#28136238)
Right. And even people who like their own brand of misinformation are not happy about other people enjoying other conflicting brands of misinformation. And this is true whether we are talking about objective misinformation or subjective "misinformation".

And so Facebook is fantastically incentivized to give each person not just what they want, but to leak as little about other people's objectionable/"objectionable" (in your eyes) experiences to you as possible.

For Facebook "cleaning up" means, optimal silo-ing.

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Re:Facebook Shuts Down Researchers Looking into Misinformation by tshaddox on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @08:21PM (#28136472)
Yeah, it's easy to imagine that as a pretty natural direction for Facebook. It's already barely "social" in the traditional sense of sharing stuff with your friends (at least for a lot of people, based on my impression). If it's way more engaging to separate each person from whatever vestige of a "real friend" group they still have, and funnel them down whatever rabbit hole they engage with the most (regardless of whether it's a misinformation rabbit hole, although I suspect many would be), then I would certainly expect Facebook to do so.
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