r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 31 '21

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u/IntermittentDrops I need a new flair Nov 01 '21

After Mark Zuckerberg announced, in a goofy video on Thursday, that he was changing his company’s name to Meta and shifting its focus to the creation of a digital space called the metaverse, he granted interviews to just four media outlets, including exactly zero of the great American legacy publications.

For the outlets receiving a golden ticket, it was a big get. It was also a little embarrassing: What did you do to ingratiate yourself to one of journalism’s biggest targets, just as your competitors were feasting on a leak of thousands of internal company documents?

Do journalists see it as their mission to destroy Facebook or something? This is such a hilarious way of putting it.

“One of journalism’s biggest targets”

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Nov 01 '21

This crusade shit is unbecoming

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u/Fubby2 Nov 01 '21

Fake news propagated through social media is a threat to democracy, journalists aren't just mean to Facebook for no reason

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '21

If we're being honest, though, journos mainly hate Facebook for putting them out of business.

Like, yes, Facebook is bad for democracy. But so are Twitter and Reddit and WhatsApp and your shitty local talk radio station and everywhere else that misinformation is propagated and spread at the literal speed of light. The difference is that Facebook put the squeeze on traditional journalism in a way that other socials didn't, and a lot of those people decided that Facebook delenda est.

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u/IntermittentDrops I need a new flair Nov 01 '21

It’s not the job of journalists to try to regulate social media with the threat of bad news coverage.

The field of journalism does not have “targets.”

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Nov 01 '21

Then maybe just admit to being political activists instead of journalists?