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Why Do We Care If Facebook Is Biased?
Curated:
15/05/2016 from
www.newyorker.com/business/currency/why-do-we-care-if-facebook-is-biased?utm_source=nextdraft&utm_medium=email
my notes ( ? )
"trending” section of Facebook... functions sort of like the front page of a newspaper...The difference comes down to a distinction in how newspapers and Facebook judge what’s important to their readers...
Facebook is playing editor all the time—it’s just that we don’t recognize it, because the editorial influence takes a different form than it would at a traditional news organization...
It’s interesting to consider why it so troubles us... It can’t be that it disturbs us to have our information mediated by humans... we’re allowing this anytime we read what is called news... Facebook is a media company, but more than that, it is a utility... positioned as part of the Internet “infrastructure,” not so different from the electric grid or the telecommunications system... The thing about utilities... we expect a kind of dumb passivity from them. The phone companies don’t send through certain calls and not others...Utilities... are regulated to assure fairness and consistency of service; Facebook and Google are not.
Facebook is playing editor all the time—it’s just that we don’t recognize it, because the editorial influence takes a different form than it would at a traditional news organization...
It’s interesting to consider why it so troubles us... It can’t be that it disturbs us to have our information mediated by humans... we’re allowing this anytime we read what is called news... Facebook is a media company, but more than that, it is a utility... positioned as part of the Internet “infrastructure,” not so different from the electric grid or the telecommunications system... The thing about utilities... we expect a kind of dumb passivity from them. The phone companies don’t send through certain calls and not others...Utilities... are regulated to assure fairness and consistency of service; Facebook and Google are not.
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