This rant is misplaced. The current criticisms of Facebook apply equally well to YouTube, and to Google News. As for morally bankrupt leadership, remember that Google just funded CPAC as a key sponsor, has made immense profits from ads on hate sites.https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/976783608219279360 …
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Facebook and Google are both a kind of thing that we don't have good language for—a combination surveillance camera, casino, and bad devil sitting on your shoulder. They make money by harvesting attention and selling it to any bidder. The similarity is significant and important
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You might think "hey, no one spends as much time on Google they do on Facebook," but essentially every site on the web is part of Google's surveillance and advertising infrastructure. And YouTube is overtly similar to Facebook in behavior and goals
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Facebook is worse than Google in the sense that it manipulates you through your ties to other people. But it's not like Google didn't try to do the same. They just failed, and now have to settle for YouTube communities, email, and the web.
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Agree that YT has a problem (and I hope we'll see it fixed soon). But you can't compare YT to FB. Propaganda on YT is like propaganda on Fox News: it's strangers yelling at you on a screen, and you can just turn off the TV. FB, on the other hand, ... (Cont)
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is how you keep in touch with your friends, and it can (does) use what your friends say in order to manipulate you (social reinforcement). Harder to avoid, far more insidious and far more effective
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The YouTube thing is subtler than that. A lot of kids spend an enormous there, for example, and Chromebooks (which many schools use) don't give you a way to turn it off. And there are bona fide YouTube communities. I don't think the difference is as clear cut as you state
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