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A Small Group of Journalists Control and Decide What Should Trend On Facebook (gizmodo.com)
An anonymous reader writes: According to five former members of Facebook's trending news team, "news curators" as they're known internally, Zuckerberg and company take a downright dim view of the media industry and its talent. In interviews with Gizmodo, these former curators described grueling work conditions, humiliating treatment, and a secretive, imperious culture in which they were treated as disposable outsiders. After doing a tour in Facebook's news trenches, almost all of them came to believe that they were there not to work, but to serve as training modules for Facebook's algorithm." "We choose what's trending," said one former news curator. From personal experience I can share a similar incident. An Indian outlet extensively wrote about flaws in Facebook's Free Basics. Few days later, "Ban [that outlet's name]" was trending on Facebook. Clicking on it, for the first few hours, literally didn't return any relevant result, as nobody was talking about it, and no media outlet had written about it. It was after more than a day or so after this fabricated item kept trending that some other outlets started to write about it. (That's common in the media industry: writing about trending topics.) In the past, we've also seen Facebook employees ask whether the company should do anything to stop Donald Trump from becoming the president.
I am wealthy, I support Bernie. Normally I wouldn't bother to state such an uninteresting combination of 2 facts, or with trying to list the various aspects of objective reality that contradict your ridiculous, uninformed and, well, hateful description of a group of 'others' (gee, where have I heard such rhetoric recently?), but you wrote your argument so poorly that this simple statement seems to QED the whole show, so...thanks for saving me some time I guess?
Congrats, there are a few of you. From what I see on my facebook wall you're 1) really bad with math and 2) really naive about government. I could also throw in 3) never heard of Venezuela, but I'd be a dick at that point.
Most of Bernie's supporters are the standard left-wingers who are envious of anybody who's "made it". If you think they won't turn on you in a heartbeat you're even more naive than I'm assuming above.
Do you have ESP?
Look, arguing with selfish libertarians is as much of a waste of time as they are wastes of oxygen the world would be better off without.
They love to paint everyone but themselves as lazy takers who want to steal the fruits of their very hard labor, and they never acknowledge any benefits of society.
It's always 'do you want to pay 50 percent taxes' without mentioning what you get in return, and of course 50 percent is an outrageous figure anyway. It's never 'would you rather pay 35 percent in taxes or 20 percent in taxes and 25 percent to for profit insurance companies and still not be covered for everything'.
They always leave out externalities like insurers sucking up more of your income than the government. When I was married you could have literally doubled my $18,000 federal taxes in exchange for no health insurance payments and I'd have broken even financially and come out ahead in job mobility. No national insurance plan would have come close to that in terms of cost but we can't have that debate honestly because of selfish libertarian children.