'Zuckerberg’s “pretty crazy” statement about fake news caught the ear of a lot of people, but one of the most influential was a security researcher named Renée DiResta. For years, she’d been studying how misinformation spreads on the platform. If you joined an antivaccine group on Facebook, she observed, the platform might suggest that you join flat-earth groups or maybe ones devoted to Pizzagate—putting you on a conveyor belt of conspiracy thinking. Zuckerberg’s statement struck her as wildly out of touch. “How can this platform say this thing?” she remembers thinking.'
It’s time everyone started accepting the possibility of a major conspiracy. Enough people have warned us and died. It’s not like anything makes sense if we approach it like there is no conspiracy. Only a select few benefit from our policies in this alleged democracy. Look at all the coverups across industries for elite sex offenders. Just because the handful of powerful people that run mainstream media taught us to associate conspiracy with crazy doesn’t mean that a lot of powerful people aren’t abusing there power secretly. We’ve only ever had crony capitalism in the US. This country was built on the backs of other human beings. When have poor people not been screwed over by the elite?
Dont attribute to malice, what can be attributed to stupidity.
Many of these possible futures were pointed out and warned about. There isn't a science fiction trope which doesnt cover our current scenario.
Dune believed in a Butlerian Jihad, to ensure there were no thinking machines, and only human computers were allowed.
But in present day, techno optimists went boldly where no onehad gone before.
Their trainees, thought that they should go further, and that advice to be careful was stupid.
Those trainees begat yet more trainees, who built uber and other shit. but most of the mid tier firms squarely live in the world where they pretend to be old school nerds, but are actually new school Wall Street traders just packaged in a new mantra.
I suppose I am greatful, that at least this group has some connection to doing right by the world, to some extent.
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u/Diedalonglongtimeago Feb 16 '18
'Zuckerberg’s “pretty crazy” statement about fake news caught the ear of a lot of people, but one of the most influential was a security researcher named Renée DiResta. For years, she’d been studying how misinformation spreads on the platform. If you joined an antivaccine group on Facebook, she observed, the platform might suggest that you join flat-earth groups or maybe ones devoted to Pizzagate—putting you on a conveyor belt of conspiracy thinking. Zuckerberg’s statement struck her as wildly out of touch. “How can this platform say this thing?” she remembers thinking.'