It’s pretty clear one reason FB failed to clamp down on fake news was that the entire community consensus was FB should not make decisions like that. That consensus was wrong. But it wasn’t only FB that was thinking like that.
There is no claim that demand is irrelevant or Facebook has mind control. Straw argument.
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it's not a straw man, you literally just argued "Facebook effectively decides what people share." Facebook has some control over our timeline (I concede that), and users decide what they share (true on face) -- so you can't play it both ways.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/975444798638346240 …
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The debate is about weights. I'm willing to argue that people who shared obviously fake articles bear more responsibility than Facebook does for allowing those articles to be propagated. But this is a little zero-sum: either FB is all-powerful or there's a bigger rot in society.
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