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How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation

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  1. ImmobileVoyager
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    For those who. in the last five or seven years, have been following the issues and topics discussed herein, the article might boil down to Which is basically what every for-profit corporation has...

    For those who. in the last five or seven years, have been following the issues and topics discussed herein, the article might boil down to

    Everything the company does flows from a single motivation: growth. Also avoid regulation.

    Which is basically what every for-profit corporation has been doing since the invention of for-profit corporations, with the added trait that since the internet went commercial in 1996 it has been envisionned as lawless by nature.

    Further reading : The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, by Shoshana Zuboff, 2019

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    arghdos
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    I don’t love the title, but I found this to be a pretty illuminating look at Facebook’s refusal to address their “engagement and growth at all costs” problem. In particular the discussion near the...

    I don’t love the title, but I found this to be a pretty illuminating look at Facebook’s refusal to address their “engagement and growth at all costs” problem. In particular the discussion near the end of algorithmic fairness shows how deeply the well has been poisoned.

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      cfabbro
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      Whenever I am not a fan of the title of something I am submitting, I usually use the lede as the submission title instead... which in this case is much better too, IMO: "[Facebook]’s AI algorithms...

      Whenever I am not a fan of the title of something I am submitting, I usually use the lede as the submission title instead... which in this case is much better too, IMO:

      "[Facebook]’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem."

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      1. arghdos
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        That’s a great suggestion, thanks!

        That’s a great suggestion, thanks!

        3 votes