THREAD: As more news comes out about @facebook's unethical selling of ur private data & NOW MESSAGES it should be noted---99% of digital media companies business model for last 5-10 years have been generating click-bait/sensationalistic "stories" to generate traffic FROM FACEBOOK
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I know because I've written for several of these sites in the past. Majority of digital media companies abdicated doing real news/investigation/reporting on corruption, injustice, or the disappearing middle class in order to capitalize on Facebook's algorithm's preference for
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brainless, sensationalist, and moronic news about digital food fights between figure A vs B, aggregating the most controversial tweets of the day, and other "news" that was meant to keep the masses uninformed while raking in CASH from Facebook. When Facebook recently changed its
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algorithm to deemphasize news outlets on their platform, a lot of these sites' traffic was cut in half (which is why you see a growing pattern of digital media companies laying off lots of workers or going out of business). This obviously has nothing to do with Facebook selling
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you out by providing your data to the highest bidder BUT it's a little hypocritical for all of these corporate "journalists" to be going after Facebook when they have been capitalizing on the clickbait model Facebook elevates for years
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