Please read @jackshafer on the fake news moral panic and why the 'cure' may be worse than the diseasehttp://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/the-cure-for-fake-news-is-worse-than-the-disease-214477 …
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Replying to @trevortimm
Misses the point entirely. Facebook already incentivized this. It has a controlling algorithm. It's already not neutral.
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Replying to @zeynep
fake news can be a problem and also there can be plenty of reasons we shouldn't want them deciding what's real news and what's fake
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Replying to @trevortimm
That is not the question. They are already deciding what to incentive, what to hide, and what to make financially lucrative.
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Replying to @zeynep @trevortimm
This isn't about censorship; it's about incentives for money and attention that Facebook has already set up.
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Most people are discussing the 20th century version of the problem; that is not the issue at all. Algos and incentives are.
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