First, the idea if you are getting criticized by "both sides", you must be doing something right is nonsense—though touted often by media.
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Second, the right/alt-right playbook has been to criticize Facebook (or some institution) baselessly, and then watch it cave to appease.
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This happened before the election. Facebook got criticized as being anti alt-right (for minimal quality control) so it dropped even that.
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What I see that works on Facebook is intense public pressure—no market competition—or employee discomfort. Right/alt/right does the first.
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Through intense public pressure, right/alt-right played Facebook into being passive to deliberate misinfo campaigns before the election.
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Expect more of the same, especially as whomever Zuck is listening to is advising him to play the useless & weak media "both sides" playbook.
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Point is NOT that Facebook should censor right wing views. Of course not. But it's always been a super helpful platform for Breitbart right.
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Facebook has also been super helpful to Trump campaign, working as their competent embedded ad-agency when they were so disorganized.
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But the right/alt-right knows the naive, liberal weakness: buckle under tiniest criticism and cave even more. So it keeps hitting. Works.
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Facebook, like most trad media, has never managed to grow a backbone—not censorship or bias, but a backbone—and defend ethics & fairness.
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Hence Facebook keeps getting played. This is the same distortion/stupidity that made mass media cover both candidates badly before election.
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BS "both sides" arguments and getting played and caving when someone flicks a finger: congrats. FB arrives as a traditional media company.
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So, is Zuck saying people concerned about this are just close-minded people whining about ideas they disagree with?https://twitter.com/cnni/status/913573655615016960 …
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