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We see most of these articles because we're in tech. The average user probably will see only a fraction of them, so it's not so much "piling on" as trying to re
by lambda_lover 8y ago
We see most of these articles because we're in tech. The average user probably will see only a fraction of them, so it's not so much "piling on" as trying to reach as many people as possible.
It definitely seems like there's a media circus about Facebook right now, but that's mostly because for the first time, journalists are realizing there's a large audience for negative articles about Facebook. So this is probably months or years of articles that didn't get sign-off that are finally getting the green light by editors because there's actually a clear audience now (and maybe the media was afraid to step on Facebook's toes before?).
- black_puppydog 8y agoHmmmm... maybe I'm underestimating the number of non- and semi-technical people following HN. I do see the current debate in the general public as (at least potentially) healthy and long overdue, I just felt that here on HN this wouldn't really pass as "news" in the literal sense, and that by now everyone here would have gotten the meta-story that "the normies" are waking up to the reality of surveillance capitalist business models...
- lambda_lover 8y agoEven as somebody who works in tech, this article revealed something shockingly scummy about Facebook. The general news of "Facebook harvests your data!" is definitely well-known in tech, but I'd say that this story qualifies as a genuine scoop.