Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
by hwers on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:42PM
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Facebook controls the algorithm, wouldn't they just be able to down amplify how much that story is spread on it's network? (Rather than resort to this?)
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
by Ansil849 on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:46PM
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Just to clarify...I pretty obviously don't think that Facebook intentionally pulled the plug to suppress a critical story. But the inadvertent effect of the downtime is nonetheless the fact that the critical story will not be the center of discussion on Facebook when Facebook is back up.
Re:What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?
by optimalsolver on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @12:27AM
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A general outage is more deniable than dampening a negative story.
bingo. I don't care whether it's in the realm of tinfoil hat or not, this is the very real effect that this outage has had. By the time Facebook is back up, people on Facebook will be talking about the outage, not about the whistle blower report. Intentional or not, it will certainly be in Facebook's favor.