When will the media realize the Facebook misinformation problem isn't easily fixable via humans or AI, is endemic to a planet's-worth of humans interacting unmediated via social apps, and will always be there in some form, assuming there's a semblance of free speech?
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Sure it could. It did for years. It wouldn't be near as successful or profitable, true. But "there's no immediate solution" is very _very_ different from "there's no immediate solution consonant with their business model."
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You're saying we're going to somehow arrange that near-trillion-dollar companies will opt to manage themselves in some stilted, self-limited form...just like that? Without the 82nd Airborne parachuting into MPK and detaining Zuck?
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No, but I am saying "the problem is fixable, but Facebook will choose not to implement any fix, because doing so will slash their profits" is quite different indeed from "the problem is unfixable," and the resulting media attention re that non-decision is richly deserved.
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I find it strange to be the social media pessimist in the room. I would claim that FB could expend whatever reasonable resources (and even its profit margin isn't infinite), and we'd still be mostly screwed.
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Jon, please listen to this, then think about how one would fix the problem :https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/post-no-evil …
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Also, decentralization (coming):https://twitter.com/marceloplima/status/1059822453764116481?s=21 …
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