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The criminal scum of Silicon Valley

she will ultimately weasel out of responsibility somehow
 
I'm not sure. Her employee who killed himself will never get justice.

She also left a wake of destroyed careers, but some of them I blame them...one company hired a dude to vet her proposal and he said "Don't do it" and they said "Thanks, we're doing it!" and thus ended that man's career.
 
At the risk of repeating myself; absolute belter of a book:
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mrzuzzo said:
What about Zucc? I guess technically what they are doing is not necessary illegal?

I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
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And it shouldn't be illegal. I can think of no more horrifying idea in society than to make Browser Software Writers somehow responsible for people going to toxic websites and getting duped by scheisters.

Asking private platform operators to censor and control like that is a terrifying assault on free speech.

All of this manipulation of our Democracy by foreign agents isn't new. The Russians have literally being doing this since the 1940's.

How do you think we got McCarthyism?

People need to take more responsibility for their consumption of garbage information that suits their biased and predisposed agenda and start reacting to new information in a more rational, analytical, collaborative, and goal oriented mind set.
 
Yeah, all that.
 
Eldritch said:
And it shouldn't be illegal. I can think of no more horrifying idea in society than to make Browser Software Writers somehow responsible for people going to toxic websites and getting duped by scheisters.

Asking private platform operators to censor and control like that is a terrifying assault on free speech.

All of this manipulation of our Democracy by foreign agents isn't new. The Russians have literally being doing this since the 1940's.

How do you think we got McCarthyism?

People need to take more responsibility for their consumption of garbage information that suits their biased and predisposed agenda and start reacting to new information in a more rational, analytical, collaborative, and goal oriented mind set.
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I agree with this, but Facebook is actually culpable for manipulating the information that people put into facebook so they can create a system that generates more political divisiveness. And they obscure most, if not all of the mechanisms of this from the user, so that they can believe that they are getting out of it what they put into it.
 
TylerW said:
I agree with this, but Facebook is actually culpable for manipulating the information that people put into facebook so they can create a system that generates more political divisiveness. And they obscure most, if not all of the mechanisms of this from the user, so that they can believe that they are getting out of it what they put into it.
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Granted, but nevertheless, people going to Social Media for News or to Learn are making poor educational choices.

I mean, really anyone who takes any information they receive at face value, even from a trusted source, they are not acting in their own best interest.
 
Eldritch said:
Granted, but nevertheless, people going to Social Media for News or to Learn are making poor educational choices.

I mean, really anyone who takes any information they receive at face value, even from a trusted source, they are not acting in their own best interest.
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It's not even so much the news sources, it's the conversations that happen around them. Here's an example that happened to me a few months ago:

By design, I'm rarely friends with people on facebook unless I've met them in person. Overall I've found this to be a good online hygiene practice, but I've made a few exceptions. One of them is an artist who makes some cool-ass stuff - and that's mostly what he posts about. He started posting a lot more politically around May when the BLM protests were getting really hot, and I engaged him on those discussions.

At the time, I noticed that facebook would delay notifications from my partner or close friends, but as soon as this guy responded, I got notified immediately: Facebook wanted us to fight.
 
Eldritch said:
Granted, but nevertheless, people going to Social Media for News or to Learn are making poor educational choices.

I mean, really anyone who takes any information they receive at face value, even from a trusted source, they are not acting in their own best interest.
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I get all my news from the barfs! :x


All your news are belong to us!


TylerW said:
It's not even so much the news sources, it's the conversations that happen around them. Here's an example that happened to me a few months ago:

By design, I'm rarely friends with people on facebook unless I've met them in person. Overall I've found this to be a good online hygiene practice, but I've made a few exceptions. One of them is an artist who makes some cool-ass stuff - and that's mostly what he posts about. He started posting a lot more politically around May when the BLM protests were getting really hot, and I engaged him on those discussions.

At the time, I noticed that facebook would delay notifications from my partner or close friends, but as soon as this guy responded, I got notified immediately: Facebook wanted us to fight.
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I think it's probably more of a mechanism of the frequent replies to each other that pushed those forward faster. It was engaging, so the algorithm favored that because it kept both users coming back for more FB product more frequently. I doubt it was really to get people to fight, though that could easily be the end result.
 
I figured out a way around the bookFace algorithm. :p


I deleted my account :laughing
 
bojangle said:
I think it's probably more of a mechanism of the frequent replies to each other that pushed those forward faster. It was engaging, so the algorithm favored that because it kept both users coming back for more FB product more frequently. I doubt it was really to get people to fight, though that could easily be the end result.
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Facebook devs have spoken anonymously that they're supposed to optimize the algorithm to exacerbate arguments.

It makes sense. People are more impulsive when they argue, so they respond more quickly - which means more page loads, which means more ads served. You can see the behavior here - when someone says something particularly spicy in one of the more debate heavy threads, it can easily grow 3-4 pages in an hour or so.

At least budman isn't trying to nudge us into more visceral verbal debate.
 
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