If you were a politician how would you create momentum to regulate Facebook? It’s really Tech against News Media now. The Media and their influential editors used to control peoples’ minds with their opinion pieces. Now that FB has “stolen” their Businesses, they know they can’t compete. They tried paywalls etc. None of the things are good enough. Newspapers lost a lot of Ad Revenue to FB. Politicians find it easy to influence a few Editors to write Articles praising them than Social Media, where it is thousands of influencers. So both Politicians and Newspapers don’t like FB. They lost Ad Revenue and the power to control to peoples minds. Now blaming tech as the Boogie Man so that people go back to “trusted” and “morally superior” Media houses is the strategy. There are far worse companies like Wells Fargo which literally stole peoples’ money, setup fake accounts thousands of them. I personally had an auto payment of 2000$ to some Wells Fargo credit card. I don’t even have Wells Fargo! There are Oil companies with their spills. Gun Manufacturers with “real blood” on their hands. The same hate was spewed against Uber. Their Unions want drivers money so that’s another strategy altogether. But will be interesting to see how Zuck handles it
It’s because of fb. The entire platform is just about selling user data for optimized targeting
Also none of the articles mentioned Twitter, snap, TikTok.
Because Facebook is the new Theranos. There’s blood in the water.
Maybe, just maybe, papers write/post articles that will attract readers. And they take the angle that they think will attract the most eyeballs. There is not always some evil ulterior motive.
Simple reason, FB is eating their ad dollars. That's all.
Well then every single news medium that sold ads would do the exact same thing....
Man, this is some conspiratorial bullshit. The fact is, most people are quite uninformed about the tech industry. For instance, before the Cambridge Analytica scandal broke I don’t think most people knew that FB tracks user data as it’s core monetization strategy. The issues Haugen raises are of genuine public interest and most people would probably agree should be investigated. Why does it have to be some conspiracy? In any event, it would make no sense for the Right to be against FB—FB’s own tools (CrowdTangled) show that right wing influencers are consistently among the most shared and engaged-with content on the platform
Weird, it’s this thing where you hold accountability to companies for this shitty practices. That’s not a hot job when it’s all true
Suurely this has absolutely nothing to do with an inconvenient fact that Facebook is actually rather bad... Of course if one wants to get conspiratorial enough, social media regulation will benefit Facebook at the expense of smaller rivals, so maybe Murdoch and Zuck are actually in cahoots.
I won’t consider it is a hit job. What parts WSJ said is not true?
Not a fan of FB but WSJ piece was really no better quality than any other sensational exposes about FB. Of many of my issues, some: The data was presented myopically. The source research claims teen depression is only mildy correlated with IG. (I don't agree but that's what the actual report reads). That's not how it was framed in the article. The whistleblower was setup to be an expert on ethics and an influencer in FB but was actually a relatively low level IC with very little context on the product the research she leaked.
So everything wsj said is true. You just don’t feel like it was deserved?