Facebook Frolics, No News Is No News Dept. 0
Bloomberg tech columnist Dave Lee explains why the Zuckerborg is turning its algorithms away from promoting news content. A snippet:
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So now Meta has decided it’s had enough. It’s not that news isn’t allowed — Canada excluded — but that Meta doesn’t feel it’s in its interests to support news organizations the way it once did.
Read the whole thing. It reinforces the obvious: “social” media isn’t.
Afterthought:
Indeed, I think an argument can be made that “social” media in the hands of companies motivated primarily, if not exclusively, by their bottom lines is anti-social media, as it is inclined to give persons what they want to hear, not what they need to hear.
