Now that Clinton gets it,
she’s horrified—and she’s specifically alarmed by what she views as Mark Zuckerberg’s unwillingness to battle the spread of disinformation and propaganda on his own platform.
There was the time, last spring, when a slowed-down video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi caught fire online.
The distorted speed, which made Pelosi appear as though she was slurring her words, seemed designed to make her appear cognitively impaired. “Google took it off YouTube … so I contacted Facebook,” Clinton said. “I said, Why are you guys keeping this up? This is blatantly false. Your competitors have taken it down. And their response was, We think our users can make up their own minds.”
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Listening to Clinton, I was struck by how remarkably similar her account was to something Zuckerberg had once told me.
Facts, Zuckerberg had suggested, are best derived from foraging many opinions, ideally from the billions of humans who use his publishing platform, so that each individual might cherry-pick what to believe. (Cherry-pick is my word, not his.)
If journalism’s mantra is “Seek truth and report it,” Facebook’s might be “Seek opinions and react to them.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...tarian/605485/
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