[HN Gopher] We're Making the Facebook Papers Public
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       We're Making the Facebook Papers Public
        
       Author : donohoe
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-11-22 18:52 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | Jiro wrote:
       | Yet another article claiming that Facebook isn't censoring
       | properly and needs to do more censoring. Because that's what it
       | amounts to.
       | 
       | It's buried, of course, in concerns about things that Facebook
       | actually does wrong. But the solution is never "Facebook's
       | censoring is so blatantly inconsistent that we'd be better off if
       | Facebook just didn't even try". It's always "Facebook claims to
       | be battling misinformation and taking action against extremism,
       | but they're not really doing it to well, so we had better make
       | sure that they get rid of all that misinformnation and those
       | extremists properly". The idea that Facebook shouldn't even be in
       | the business of deciding what counts as misinformation occurs to
       | nobody.
        
         | riedel wrote:
         | It would enough if facebook would not favour misinformation.
         | The core of the problem is ranking post to maximize profit.
         | Misinformation is only dangerous due to its amplification.
        
         | blottsie wrote:
         | That's not really the point of this article tho. It's about the
         | public release of the documents Frances Haugen provided to
         | Congress and the media. Also, people make the argument you're
         | making fairly regularly--indeed, it's been Zuckerberg's basic
         | stance for a while.
        
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