Re:Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally ...
by jjj123 on Sunday January 29, 2023 @05:09PM
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The question is not “how could a social network like Facebook have done any better given small tweaks to content moderation?” It’s “is Facebook fundamentally designed to create these kinds of misinformation bubbles?”
That second question is much more painful to ask if you’re an engineer at a company like this, because it means there’s no changing it from within.
Re:Facebook drains users' cellphone batteries intentionally ...
by pas on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:17PM
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but it's also probably false with a likelihood of at least 99%
Facebook is designed fundamentally to be a social graph, a representation of people's lives, blablabla. the more time people spend representing their lives on FB, the more attached they are to their online persona/profile/connections (and the dopamine rewards through likes and engagement), the more money it makes.
misinformation bubble? who cares. if that is what people want to represent, FB provides it, sure, but it's not what it is designed for.
It's important to assign some responsibility to those who have/had the ability to prevent it, but it's not clear to me that FB could have prevented it.
In close races like the US presidential election it's plausible that FB was the deciding factor, but places where genocides happen are not known for close races.