>That Facebook might be amplifying outrage — while driving polarization and elevating more-extreme parties around the world
Of all the parties to be complaining about this. Washington Post is one of the several big politicized US media outlets (Fox News on the right, Washington Post and New York Times on the left). Those three themselves are all political outrage mills that try to get readership enraged at the other party.
If you look their current Washington Post front page, they link to the above story. Immediately beneath their link to this are the following two political stories:
> GOP used Senate delays to make changes at U.S. product safety regulator
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>An army of poll watchers — many driven by GOP’s ‘election integrity’ push — turns out across Virginia
Washington Post complaining about Facebook acting as a political outrage mill is particularly funny because in Washington Post’s case, they have a human in the editorial loop and are doing it with full awareness and intent.
Facebook’s computers might be better than Washington Post’s humans at it, and that might be the real source of upset.
If a person publish a cat picture and a lot of people likes the picture… that means Facebook reward cats? Not. Reward post neutrally. Reward the number of interactions. Not expecifically anger.
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>That Facebook might be amplifying outrage — while driving polarization and elevating more-extreme parties around the world
Of all the parties to be complaining about this. Washington Post is one of the several big politicized US media outlets (Fox News on the right, Washington Post and New York Times on the left). Those three themselves are all political outrage mills that try to get readership enraged at the other party.
If you look their current Washington Post front page, they link to the above story. Immediately beneath their link to this are the following two political stories:
> GOP used Senate delays to make changes at U.S. product safety regulator
>
>An army of poll watchers — many driven by GOP’s ‘election integrity’ push — turns out across Virginia
Washington Post complaining about Facebook acting as a political outrage mill is particularly funny because in Washington Post’s case, they have a human in the editorial loop and are doing it with full awareness and intent.
Facebook’s computers might be better than Washington Post’s humans at it, and that might be the real source of upset.
If a person publish a cat picture and a lot of people likes the picture… that means Facebook reward cats? Not. Reward post neutrally. Reward the number of interactions. Not expecifically anger.