Suppose Facebook embraces the fact that editorial power is political power. Could they develop this without splitting into Blue Facebook and Red Facebook like the television news networks?
Suppose Facebook embraces the fact that editorial power is political power. Could they develop this without splitting into Blue Facebook and Red Facebook like the television news networks?
[0] https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2017/01/continuing-our-updates-... [1] https://gizmodo.com/former-facebook-workers-we-routinely-sup...
This is important for community admins to understand. This is not a dialogue problem. People are given a tribe to belong to or oppose, and these affiliations are used by strategists and propagandists to affect popular anger/resentment.
That means that users don't want to see a balanced feed. They want to see things that make them feel good things, and not bad things. And the other side is "bad things".
If they have editorial power then it's time to do away with the Digital Safe Harbors and time to consider antitrust.