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Facebook is the Enemy Now

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Meta: the hackernews community is clearly fixated on some topics and will always upvote articles attacking FaceBook, Tesla, Bitcoin, social justice, Trump, and maybe a few others. A lot of the submissions are low effort and beat out more interesting posts.

Is there any way to fix this? I come here for the interesting discussions, but the repetitive negative articles are dragging this website down IMO.

I guess I'm here to make the same point, though mine was more flavored like "I'm sure this was breaking news in 2010."

ban buzzfeed and huffington post articles?

Submit articles you think are interesting, upvote those you think are interesting, flag those you think aren't appropriate for the site, contribute comments which move the discussion forward in substantive ways, flag/downvote those you think aren't appropriate. Those are pretty much the tools we have at our disposal. Things we don't like are easy to see. Help create the site you want it to be. It does take more work, but I think that's the main way forward.

I have my concerns too about Facebook, but this is typical sensationalist journalism. If every statement weren’t hyperbolic I’d give it more credibility. Why are so many journalists so bad at their craft now? Read the NY Times, BBC or The Intercept and compare their professionalism to this article. They’ve become an anachronism in a sea of progressive blogger shit like HuffPo.

They make good points about data/information governance and their propensity to sensor contrarian views... On the other hand, HuffPo does not fail at irony. To wit: "They have destabilized traditional, fact-based journalism."

As someone said about Journos vs Trump. Don't get into trolling wars, cuz you can't win. Stick to facts and stop sensationalizing things. Become journalists and "newsmen" and "newswomen" for a change, again.

> Why are so many journalists so bad at their craft now? Read the NY Times, BBC or The Intercept and compare their professionalism to this article.

You don't really get journalists these days, you get content curators, who aggregate stories from each-other in a giant game of low-paid chinese whispers..

What is interesting is that the tech companies may be seeing both the Left and Right unite against them.

The left has always been suspicious of large corporations, especially those with monopolies, but because it perceived the founders as part of them it gave them a pass. The right has in the past been more hands off towards big business. However, the right is waking up to the danger of the big tech companies censoring them.

I think in the near future you are going to have a perfect storm where both the left and right get together and break up these companies.

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