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Traditional media is extremely salty over their lose of control in "opinion making" and creating consensus. Dont get me wrong, FB is not much better, but at le
by wrong_variable 7y ago
Traditional media is extremely salty over their lose of control in "opinion making" and creating consensus.
Dont get me wrong, FB is not much better, but at least it's much more open and direct then traditional media.
Russia had very little to do with DJTJ, EVERY country tries to influence election in other countries.
Whenever there is an election anywhere in the world. Traditional media in the US fill the airwave with opinion making - both domestically and in foreign press.
This is why so many countries are skeptical of allowing US media to operate freely within their borders.
Both FB and traditional media have big agendas, but FB's agenda of selling ads is much more benign then whatever the state department wants.
- tombert 7y agoI don't really see your point. Even if you're right, and the State is way more evil than Facebook, how does that affect the fact that Facebook is still terrible? If I were to say "Ted Bundy isn't that bad...look at how many people Stalin killed!", you would rightly say that that's a dumb argument. Similarly, just because you can find Entity A acting worse than Entity B, that doesn't imply that Entity B is good, and it doesn't imply that we shouldn't do something about Entity B, just because we can find something worse.
- JohnFen 7y ago> FB's agenda of selling ads is much more benign then whatever the state department wants. I disagree with this, actually. Facebook's agenda of selling ads is the very thing that makes them toxic -- not because selling ads is a terrible thing, but because Facebook is so insistent on using people's personal data to do it.