These kinds of headlines—"Here’s How Facebook’s Local News Algorithm Change Led To The Worst Riots Paris Has Seen In 50 Years"—and reporting largely unfounded and irresponsible. What about the evidence here is convincing?pic.twitter.com/3nQHqLVkAG
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That said, I don't like the title of the piece. Too strong in my view. (I now negotiate title veto on writing contracts, well, partly because the need to go viral on Facebook/Twitter favors edgier and bolder claims in titles
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That's a trivial notion of causation in which a particular Lyft driver drove me home. It says nothing about whether I would have gotten home at basically the same time even if she hadn't been working.
Ah! Facebook isn't identical to any other communication platform; obviously telegraph to television is a big change. A Lyft driver to another is kinda like... one TV correspondent to to another. Facebook isn't just one more way. It clearly changes the road, if you will.
but that is trivial. in rheingold's "smart mobs" it was #sms, in jelzin's revolution it was #fax. before that, there were "telephone chains" plus "mass media". maybe the leaderless character of the movement (like #occupy & #anonymous) is related to grassroots network media.
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