Facebook paid GOP firm to malign TikTok
Taylor Lorenz, Drew Harwell ,
Washington Post,
Mar 31, 2022
I know this feels more like a political headline than a technology one, but as a tech writer who left Facebook some four or five years ago because the ethics of the company just didn't sit well, this is to me just another in a long list of reasons not to use the platform. Not that TikTok is perfect - and as a regular user and sometime contributor I admit to still being surprised by its moderation decisions. In the long term, we shouldn't be depending on any of these platforms (nor especially on algorithms that privilege commercial value over truth, accuracy or fairness). And that's a pretty universal concern, not just political. More: Casey Newton, The Lesson Facebook Won't Learn.
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