- Impact
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Have you seen this?
Facebook created their own fake posts to try to turn things around even after they promised to clean up fake content.
The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-zuckerberg-empire.html
"A 6,000-word report published in the New York Times last week disclosed in humiliating detail the lengths to which Facebook has gone to protect its dominance and attack its critics. As various interlocking crises concerning hate speech, misinformation, and data privacy widened, top executives ignored, and then kept secret, evidence that the platform had become a vector for misinformation campaigns by government-backed Russian trolls. The company mounted a shockingly aggressive lobbying and public-relations campaign, which included creating and circulating pro-Facebook blog posts that were functionally indistinguishable from the “coordinated inauthentic content” (that is, fake news) Facebook had pledged to eliminate from its platform. In one particularly galling example, the company hired a political consultancy that spread a conspiracy theory accusing George Soros of funding anti-Facebook protests. Zuckerberg, it seems, had taken the “really harsh approach” to establishing digital hegemony."
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Really?
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Facebook created their own fake posts to try to turn things around even after they promised to clean up fake content.
The Decline and Fall of the Zuckerberg Empire
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/the-decline-and-fall-of-the-zuckerberg-empire.html
"A 6,000-word report published in the New York Times last week disclosed in humiliating detail the lengths to which Facebook has gone to protect its dominance and attack its critics. As various interlocking crises concerning hate speech, misinformation, and data privacy widened, top executives ignored, and then kept secret, evidence that the platform had become a vector for misinformation campaigns by government-backed Russian trolls. The company mounted a shockingly aggressive lobbying and public-relations campaign, which included creating and circulating pro-Facebook blog posts that were functionally indistinguishable from the “coordinated inauthentic content” (that is, fake news) Facebook had pledged to eliminate from its platform. In one particularly galling example, the company hired a political consultancy that spread a conspiracy theory accusing George Soros of funding anti-Facebook protests. Zuckerberg, it seems, had taken the “really harsh approach” to establishing digital hegemony."
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Really?
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What do you expect from a "spoiled brat" who launched his company with "free web hosting" by hacking into Harvard's computers?
