Sandberg/Facebook is asked what they don't allow. She says "hate speech/bullying, etc."—as per TOS. Fine, but the real action is the process that FB (and the industry) uses to police content. That's where it all goes down, as shaped by business model—how the cost center operates.
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Marco Rubio asked a very good question. It's one thing for Sandberg/Dorsey to come wrapped in "our values" to the US Congressional hearings. But they operate worldwide—billions of people use these sites as public/social sphere. This is a crucial, thorny issue.
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Another great question from Senator Heinrich. "Authentic" as a word only does so much work—mostly works when paired with "foreign" and "coordinated". Facebook leans on that phrase, but it really only does fairly little work considering what the core problem is.
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Harris/Sandberg exchange on how "white men" got to be a "protected category" on Facebook but not "black children" is telling in how the public conversation misses core problems. Sandberg said it was a mistake, ok but it was a consequence of business model/scale, not some hatred.
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Dorsey's own opening statement talked about incentives, and how the business models and incentives on these platforms interact with human/social dynamics. Kinda surprising that there aren't more questions on that: that's the crucial issue.
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Every journalist tweeting or periscoping that “clown,” and
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It's as if rephrasing it would change the consequences of their actions. OK, so maybe they don't literally sell the data they collect, but they do sell the access to that data to advertisers (that is, anybody with money to spend, really).
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Google does the exact same thing as Facebook. Online newspapers allow Google and Facebook to directly harvest user data from their news sites (via Google Analytics/Facebook "Like" buttons/tracker ads).
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