Google and Facebook Have Failed Us
Zeynep Tufekci had a couple great columns about this recently regarding FB and the US elections this year. While I recognize that there&#x27;s always a concern about who the gatekeepers get to be in the marketplace of ideas, I think this is a considerably more complex issues than &quot;let all the information go wherever it wants and let the people sort it out&quot;<p>Putting 4Chan in a top news slot is not &quot;allowing unedited and unfiltered access to information&quot;, it is algorithmicly promoting a cesspool of disinformation into a spot that many users believe is fairly authoritative. There is no way to &quot;not make a choice&quot; here and let information be free. There is only figuring out ways to filter and sort the firehose of information that is now at all of our fingertips. (A situation, I should add, that human brains are not necessarily prepared for)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;29&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;mark-zuckerberg-f...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;facebook-ad-scandal.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;09&#x2F;23&#x2F;opinion&#x2F;sunday&#x2F;facebook-a...</a>