Facebook’s top news exec has own media outlet

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32 points·smacktoward··6 comments

It's not surprising, but, so far, it seems like this new Facebook News is going to have a right bias. They've said that they are going to include Breitbart, but they haven't mentioned any leftist news organizations in the list.

Plus, Zuckerberg has been having dinners with far-right media figures, but no leftists, and now we know that the person in charge of FB News runs a right biased news outlet.

This article is great for context on how/why this happened:

Why did this get de-prioritized?

does anyone think Mark Zuckerberg is factually wrong that Elizabeth Warren poses an existential threat to his business? If not, why are we supposed to be shocked, shocked! at his comments saying so?

It's not really useful to simply tell people they shouldn't be "surprised" about something. Nearly always, what you're interpreting as "surprise" is not some opinion akin to "I thought, pragmatically, that this would not happen, but it did". Usually what you're seeing is an opinion about what happened - i.e. whether it's good or bad (to be reductive).

Also, it's a really common trope for people arguing in bad faith to reframe a reaction as only "surprise" and then attacking people for so stupidly being surprised.

my argument is more, Elizabeth Warren is definitely an existential threat to Facebook and it would be wildly imprudent for the CEO to treat her election as anything less.

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