Facebook needs to start thinking systematically about how to engage with its political responsibilities, rather than continuing to pretend that it doesn’t have any.
acknowledge bias and the human element of facebook, and then allow people to make their own judgements
Imagine, for example, if an unsupervised machine-learning process determined that conservative political orientation provided a strong signal that the news on a particular website was untrustworthy, and started penalizing conservative sites accordingly.
algorithms don't have the critical thinking skills that humans do, so it seems unwise to trust them to discern the truth
O’Reilly argues that one can do the same thing for truth.
is there an objective "truth" in every situation? is it always so black and white?
Facebook has said that it cannot be an arbiter of truth.
facebook is stepping back from the role of a reliable source. This is something that should maybe be true of social media generally -- they should not be trusted to give unbiased information
writes of his race education via Google
the concept of an "education via Google" is a bit crazy -- google can produce information from such a variety of different sources. It's hard to discern the bias in sources, which can prove dangerous
credibility or legitimacy of the information they propagate.
a huge issue with media is that people often take what they read as the truth. In our class, we're learning about the inherent bias in media and how to read critically, but questioning commonly accepted media is not a skill that everyone has or is aware of
“I prefer using Facebook because that’s where my customers are. The first thing people want to do when they buy a smartphone is to open a Facebook account.”
example of how the internet and social media are literally taking over the world. Do you think this is a bad thing? or does the positives of social media outweigh the negatives
The goal of European regulators, officials said, is to give users greater control over the data from social media posts, online searches and purchases that Facebook and other tech giants rely on to monitor our online habits.
Europe is trying to give the general public more power over how much their data is shared and how much privacy they have
In 2016, Facebook took tentative steps toward embracing China’s censorship policies
it's interesting how hard facebook has tried to win China over, and how little success theyve had
But all those efforts flopped, foiling Facebook’s attempts to crack one of the most isolated pockets of the internet.
Do you think zuckerberg's tactics are deceitful? or is it just a "know your audience" situation?
“But when you look at the data and truly listen to the people around the world who rely on our service, it’s clear that we do a much better job of bringing people together than polarizing them.”
what are some ways in which Facebook, social media, and the internet polarize people? and bring them together?