Trump is working the refs—specifically the one who has absolute control over the most important platform: Mark Zuckerberg. This happened in the run-up to the 2016 election, too. Meanwhile, everyone is analyzing legal details of an order whose purpose isn't to be legally-enacted.
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Silicon Valley employs liberals but that doesn't matter. When Facebook's own researchers found that "fake news, spam, clickbait and inauthentic users" were more common on the right, Facebook executives shut down their efforts. Playing the refs *works*. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/trumps-executive-order-isnt-about-twitter/612349/ …pic.twitter.com/BGXXNtkQL6
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Facebook employees seem to not understand the company they are working for.https://twitter.com/ananny/status/1266475527478493184 …
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The answer isnt in a close reading of Facebook’s policies, but it’s interests.https://twitter.com/donie/status/1266416129448255489 …
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The difference is pretty clear, different audiences. Zuckerberg’s Fox New appearance had an audience of one, Trump, Just like trumps executive order had primarily an audience of one, Zuckerberg. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/05/trumps-executive-order-isnt-about-twitter/612349/ … https://twitter.com/pwnallthethings/status/1266517151218896899 …
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So if I understand this correctly, Facebook’s new oversight board, which doesn’t have the authority to investigate what should not be amplified for instigating violence, will start working sometime too close to matter or after the US election? Convenient. https://twitter.com/oversightboard/status/1266736657509875718 …?
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Or maybe the Facebook Oversight board has authority to oversee what should be removed or not amplified? Come on, we all switched to teaching online as best we can with one weeks notice—and Facebook’s oversight board cannot hold an emergency meeting now?https://twitter.com/oversightboard/status/1266736657509875718 …
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I have complicated thoughts about an oversight board for Facebook, but if they do not hold an emergency meeting right this weekend, I don’t think any of my complicated thoughts matter because the board clearly doesn’t matter. I’m not wasting my brain cells analyzing vaporware.
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Because I don’t think a boycott is the answer or, more importantly, plausible. Facebook is important exactly because it’s also useful and even essential—and depending on where you live, often without an alternative. I will write longer about this soonish.https://twitter.com/eric_weinberger/status/1266755988893380615 …
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Trump and Zuckerberg just had a phone call "described by both sides as productive." Meanwhile, Trump's "shooting/looting" posts remain up on Facebook. Zuckerberg also made sure to go on Fox News to say he disagreed with Twitter putting a warning on them.https://www.axios.com/trump-facebook-zuckerberg-phone-call-d8d1016e-4e17-4906-b4f4-dc3e5c00bca7.html …
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The “looting and shooting” post is still being amplified by Instagram and Facebook, following the mutually “productive” phone conversation between the president and Facebook’s CEO. Also, much less incendiary posts *do* get taken down all the time on both.https://twitter.com/teddyschleifer/status/1267325559584899072 …
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The idea that Facebook is hostile to conservatives is absolutely not true. This is a typical top 10, though usually Breitbart does very well as well. https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1267466861416861697 …
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“The employees, who took the day off by logging into Facebook’s systems and requesting time off...”https://twitter.com/Kantrowitz/status/1267497556604416001 …
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"As for Snapchat, we simply cannot promote accounts in America that are linked to people who incite racial violence, whether they do so on or off our platform." At Snapchat, Trump's posts will no longer be amplified.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1268220153302573056 …
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Facebook is not hostile to conservatives or extreme right-wingers, case zillion. Owens is known for saying "If Hitler just wanted to make Germany great and have things run well, okay, fine. The problem is that he wanted—he had dreams outside of Germany." https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1268563336079085569 …
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