[Booktrope]

Not FB responsibility if they set up and tuned an information spreading system that promotes stuff that's inflammatory over stuff that's informative? Users of FB only see what FB feeds to them, and that's all about how FB aligns the user's activities and characteristics to the content FB is supplying. What a total cop out to say, the problem is what people say, when FB plays such a crucial role in what people see. Before FB (yes and other social media) amped this stuff up, a village idiot standing on a corner shouting conspiracy theories got very little attention. But on FB this kind of stuff feeds engagement, and we know how important engagement is.

Yet the guy who's slated to by FB's CTO says, don't put all this inflammatory stuff on me! Freedom of speech you know and just let us do our job of promoting engagement and building ever more effective ad targeting technology!

[s1artibartfast]

FB shows people what they want to see. They provided the public a channel to tune into what anyone has to say and it turned out that people sought out the village idiot.

Now the public says show me what I want, but prevent everyone else from seeing what they want.

[jensensbutton]

> an information spreading system that promotes stuff that's inflammatory over stuff that's informative

The problem is who's to say which is which.

[Booktrope]

The responsibility is to figure out which is which, if you're the one choosing what to amplify.