The Frumrious Flagellation of Facebook is a perfect example of a propaganda package. How many of these have we had recently? They all run the same. All the major media has the same story, at the same time, from the same sources; nothing unpredictable is said, the clockwork figures dance their cycles and the ratchet tightens up a notch.
I say this not in defense of Facebook, or any of the other targets of the machine; fuck 'em or love them they're irrelevant. This beastly media / government / opinion preisthood should be regognized as an unceasing fountain of bullshit that pollutes our minds as it blames others for doing so.
Well, it's suspicious that the whistle-blower just wants to prop-up the pro-censorship views that the government already wants to push forward. Too convenient.
On the other side the mainstream social media sites are a dead end, so the more censorship and the more blatant it is the better, so that people start seriously working on alternatives, the internet has really turned into something very embarrassing.
The whistle that she blew was about Facebook lying about its internal research.
She did not call for the government to censor anything. She (and Congress) want Facebook to be transparent with its shareholders, as per the law, and to stop harming its users.
The issue is with the algorithm prioritizing engagement, regardless of whether that engagement is good or bad. It is not about a particular type of content being banned or preserved.
I say this not in defense of Facebook, or any of the other targets of the machine; fuck 'em or love them they're irrelevant. This beastly media / government / opinion preisthood should be regognized as an unceasing fountain of bullshit that pollutes our minds as it blames others for doing so.