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I see no way that this power, first applied to uncontroversially-bad information, will ever be misused.

What happened to "organise _the world's_ information, and make it _accessible_ and useful"?

what happened is the trolls and insane people got all the clicks and it made the public dumber.

Would that have happened if these platforms "organised _the world's_ information, and made it _accessible_ and useful" instead of using engagement driven filter bubbles?

Facebook would be #1 in online advertising and we'd be using Bing on our Windows Phones.

Yes. This inevitably results in all mass-adopted systems, even messaging services where people just talk to each other. It's not the systems, it's the people.

Just because that power can be misused doesn't mean they should never use it.

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