Great on economic & viral infrastructure on Facebook. Letting fake news thrive pushes everyone else to to be worse. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/conservative-page-owners-in-fake-news-panic …pic.twitter.com/N7aIEG2qeN
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Great on economic & viral infrastructure on Facebook. Letting fake news thrive pushes everyone else to to be worse. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/conservative-page-owners-in-fake-news-panic …pic.twitter.com/N7aIEG2qeN
Does 1st Amendment protect people and organizations that spread knowably false information? Can FTC enforce Truth in Advertising?
Multi-factor election, as always. Facebook was a sizeable factor, one among many. If FB had no influence, it would make no money.
Your suggestion is that everyone should make shit up, as outrageous as possible, and Facebook should help that to go viral? Oy vey.
That's what we are talking about here, though. Massive disinformation campaign that went viral and amplified mostly thru Facebook.
FB today is not FB 4 years ago. FB campaigns can demobilize. Anyway, FB business model & market cap proves: it has influence./end
OK, let's leave social media as such out of the picture for a moment.
Would the concept of "sensational disinformation amplified by herd instinct" give you a better idea of what's going on?
Sure we would. Not as much, but "How did he come so close?" would definitely still be causing consternation.
I've been talking about this for at least four years. Denialism runs strong.
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