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October 21, 2019 03:50 pm PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/7PHwRuMqGMY/facebook-isnt-free-speech.html
Facebook isnt free speech, its "algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage"
Jon Evans of TechCrunch zeroes in on Facebook's big problem. Mark Zuckerberg wants you to believe that Facebook was designed as a platform where anyone can share their ideas, but as Evans points out, it's Facebook's algorithm that decides which ideas you see.
Read the restWhen Zuckerberg talks about giving people a voice, he really means giving those people selected by Facebooks algorithm a voice. When he says People having the power to express themselves at scale is a new kind of force in the world a Fifth Estate, what he actually means is that Facebooks algorithm is itself that Fifth Estate.
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