News Feed FYI: Addressing Hoaxes and Fake News
Remember :<p>- It all started with Facebook being accused of manipulating the timeline to remove conservative stories during the campaign<p>- At the time, their PR was along the lines of : we will fire the staff and replace it with an &quot;objective&quot; algorithm<p>- Shortly before the end of the campaign, the Fake News narrative started to be tested under various forms (&quot;conspiracy theories are going mainstream&quot;, &quot;damaging rumors&quot; etc...)<p>- Post election the Fake News narrative started to be really pushed by politics<p>- At the same time, FB started to announce actions to fight the so called &quot;Fake News Problem&quot;.<p>- And these day, hearing FB and mainstream media, the rethoric is as shameless as &quot;We need to clean the news&quot;.<p>Having been caught doing some very troubling things, FB answer is to double down with what would be called censorship if it was being done in China.<p>Shutting down opinions, based on the opinions expressed can remind certain patterns of a not so old history. I find it shocking that people accept this development so quietly. Everybody seems to be ok with that.  It seems like citizens are no longer awake and fighting for the bill of rights, seriously folks how can something like this possibly happen in this country ? Are you realizing what is happening here ?<p>In 2016, the average citizen thinks he is a good citizen and is all proud by being &quot;politically correct&quot; for a number of small things (often ridiculous and preventing him from maturing his own opinions) but everybody is comfortable with movements such as &quot;Cleaning the news&quot; being organized in plain sight. That&#x27;s how you know something is fucked up. This is a shame.