Faceboot

hoo boy

Also, sadly mistaken.

They usually run on Tuesdays as I recall. 🤔

…Seeing how the power the company holds over the planet’s future.

What do you think of Peter Thiel? Most people have no clue who he is or what he does.



I’ve got nothing personal against him, per se, but do feel his big wallet holds more sway than my tiny wallet through his ability to buy influence.

RW propaganda on my feed along with finding it to be a far better source of news than the various Cable Noise Drama TV channels.

Yes, the wealthy made a bunch of bucks both before and during the pandemic and I hope that all of them are taxed into the dirt including Zucherberg. They have one goal in mind and that is making more money but, that is hardly news to anyone.

and a fascist enabler worldwide.

it is pure unadulterated evil.

full stop.

... you know them... they defend FB for it's business value, family contacts, blah blah blah... they've been quiet lately. Interesting, perhaps?

It might be…



Orwell had the world ruled by three huge political blocks. He had no idea the money would be so good that a business could become the globe’s ruler.

Theses threads are boring repetitive and futile

If you hate Facebook don’t use it. Nobody is telling you to sign up .And if people want to use it there is nothing you can do to stop them, is there?

If you don't like it, don't use it. Seems really simple to me.

That's what I think.

FACEBOOK IS A DOOMSDAY MACHINE

The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save ourselves.

By Adrienne LaFrance
The Atlantic, DECEMBER 15, 2020

The doomsday machine was never supposed to exist. It was meant to be a thought experiment that went like this: Imagine a device built with the sole purpose of destroying all human life. Now suppose that machine is buried deep underground, but connected to a computer, which is in turn hooked up to sensors in cities and towns across the United States.

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Limitations to the Doomsday Machine comparison are obvious: Facebook cannot in an instant reduce a city to ruins the way a nuclear bomb can. And whereas the Doomsday Machine was conceived of as a world-ending device so as to forestall the end of the world, Facebook started because a semi-inebriated Harvard undergrad was bored one night. But the stakes are still life-and-death. Megascale is nearly the existential threat that megadeath is. No single machine should be able to control the fate of the world’s population—and that’s what both the Doomsday Machine and Facebook are built to do.

The cycle of harm perpetuated by Facebook’s scale-at-any-cost business model is plain to see. Scale and engagement are valuable to Facebook because they’re valuable to advertisers. These incentives lead to design choices such as reaction buttons that encourage users to engage easily and often, which in turn encourage users to share ideas that will provoke a strong response. Every time you click a reaction button on Facebook, an algorithm records it, and sharpens its portrait of who you are. The hyper-targeting of users, made possible by reams of their personal data, creates the perfect environment for manipulation—by advertisers, by political campaigns, by emissaries of disinformation, and of course by Facebook itself, which ultimately controls what you see and what you don’t see on the site.

Facebook has enlisted a corps of approximately 15,000 moderators, people paid to watch unspeakable things—murder, gang rape, and other depictions of graphic violence that wind up on the platform. Even as Facebook has insisted that it is a value-neutral vessel for the material its users choose to publish, moderation is a lever the company has tried to pull again and again. But there aren’t enough moderators speaking enough languages, working enough hours, to stop the biblical flood of shit that Facebook unleashes on the world, because 10 times out of 10, the algorithm is faster and more powerful than a person. At megascale, this algorithmically warped personalized informational environment is extraordinarily difficult to moderate in a meaningful way, and extraordinarily dangerous as a result.

These dangers are not theoretical, and they’re exacerbated by megascale, which makes the platform a tantalizing place to experiment on people. Facebook has conducted social-contagion experiments on its users without telling them. Facebook has acted as a force for digital colonialism, attempting to become the de facto (and only) experience of the internet for people all over the world. Facebook has bragged about its ability to influence the outcome of elections. Unlawful militant groups use Facebook to organize. Government officials use Facebook to mislead their own citizens, and to tamper with elections. Military officials have exploited Facebook’s complacency to carry out genocide. Facebook inadvertently auto-generated jaunty recruitment videos for the Islamic State featuring anti-Semitic messages and burning American flags.

Continues…

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/facebook-doomsday-machine/617384/

The only things I read on Facebook is generated by members of my extended family and some friends. I do not use Facebook as a news source.

The “platform” is awash with propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, along with a lot of really interesting stuff.

Ask the experts, like Frances Haugen.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/10/08/facebook-twitter-political-disinformation/6026677001/