Obama made a personal appeal to Zuckerberg to take fake news seriously. But Zuckerberg is not accountable to anyone. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/obama-tried-to-give-zuckerberg-a-wake-up-call-over-fake-news-on-facebook/2017/09/24/15d19b12-ddac-4ad5-ac6e-ef909e1c1284_story.html …
I think it is an important qualitative difference. Fake news is about gaming an algorithm, not persuasion or framing reality
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I see. Still, we worry about it not because it takes a top spot in the feeds, but because it persuades and/or misframes reality.
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I find it fascinating when the creators of it don’t care at all about the ideological content, just want clicks
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