Post by robeiae on Dec 17, 2020 8:44:52 GMT -5
From my First Amendment thread: thecollinegate.boards.net/post/32373
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Guess what? Facebook ISN'T making the changes permanent (and Twitter is "reverting" too): www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-policy-election/twitter-reverts-to-old-retweet-function-after-u-s-election-idUSKBN28R0IM
You know, I think this is worse than making the changes permanent. MUCH worse. Twitter and FB are basically admitting that they had a goal to achiev e with those changes, and now that they've achieved, this stuff doesn't matter. "Misinformation" is apparently only a problem once in awhile. It's not a continuous problem because that would interfere with revenue streams...
robeiae said:
More Greenwald: greenwald.substack.com/p/demanding-silicon-valley-suppressIn Tuesday’s New York Times, three of those censorious tech reporters — Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac, and Sheera Frenkel — published an article on Facebook’s post-election deliberations over how to alter its algorithms to prevent the spread of what they deem “misinformation” regarding the election. The most consequential change they implemented, The New York Times explained, was one in which “hyperpartisan pages” are repressed in favor of promoting “a spike in visibility for big, mainstream publishers like CNN, The New York Times and NPR” — a change the Paper of Record heralded as having fostered “a calmer, less divisive Facebook.”
More alarmingly, the NYT suggested (i.e., prayed) that these changes, designed by Facebook as an election-related emergency measure, would instead become permanent. Marvel at these two paragraphs and all of tenuous and self-serving assumptions buried in them:
More alarmingly, the NYT suggested (i.e., prayed) that these changes, designed by Facebook as an election-related emergency measure, would instead become permanent. Marvel at these two paragraphs and all of tenuous and self-serving assumptions buried in them:
Read on...
Guess what? Facebook ISN'T making the changes permanent (and Twitter is "reverting" too): www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-policy-election/twitter-reverts-to-old-retweet-function-after-u-s-election-idUSKBN28R0IM
Twitter said it will no longer prompt quote tweets from the retweet icon. “Retweet functionality will be returning to the way it was before,” the company said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Meanwhile, Facebook has in the past few days rolled back their algorithm that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources after November's election, according to a report in the New York Times. (nyti.ms/3mqCJWh)
Facebook did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment.
The implementation of the algorithm had resulted in a reduction in traffic for partisan sites like Breitbart and Occupy Democrats and an increase for mainstream news publishers, the report said.
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Meanwhile, Facebook has in the past few days rolled back their algorithm that lifted news from authoritative outlets over hyperpartisan sources after November's election, according to a report in the New York Times. (nyti.ms/3mqCJWh)
Facebook did not immediately respond to Reuters request for comment.
The implementation of the algorithm had resulted in a reduction in traffic for partisan sites like Breitbart and Occupy Democrats and an increase for mainstream news publishers, the report said.