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A review by omnibozo22
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination by Sheera Frenkel
5.0
This seems to be a well researched look into the inner workings of FB and why it fails so badly at being humane. What exactly are the goals of an individual or a company that already has revenues and profits of billions of dollars? Continued growth? For what? Billy Gates came late to the philanthropy world. Sandburg and Zuck are not even conversant with it.
I'm not currently organizing any government insurrections, so I'm not too worried about the personal data collection. I understand the FB goal of sending me info about things that will probably interest me, while not sending me fascist, racist, insurrectionist shit from scared old white men. FB's lack of insight into how their manipulation of page posts, it the most disturbing aspect of the book. FB does not need to be an arbiter of the First Amendment. They are a private company. If they are going to facilitate a particular political viewpoint, they should be honest about it. Users who do not share those viewpoints can/should move to another platform.
FB, despite all their high powered programmers, has failed to produce programs that detect and block manipulated video. When they finally detect those videos, they choose to do nothing about them. Losing a few funny memes would be a small loss, compared to the damage we know those videos have done.
Time to break up FB.
I'm not currently organizing any government insurrections, so I'm not too worried about the personal data collection. I understand the FB goal of sending me info about things that will probably interest me, while not sending me fascist, racist, insurrectionist shit from scared old white men. FB's lack of insight into how their manipulation of page posts, it the most disturbing aspect of the book. FB does not need to be an arbiter of the First Amendment. They are a private company. If they are going to facilitate a particular political viewpoint, they should be honest about it. Users who do not share those viewpoints can/should move to another platform.
FB, despite all their high powered programmers, has failed to produce programs that detect and block manipulated video. When they finally detect those videos, they choose to do nothing about them. Losing a few funny memes would be a small loss, compared to the damage we know those videos have done.
Time to break up FB.