> 'Everything about Facebook is bad for the same reason'
Superb essay over on Quartz:
Every data point is treated equally, irrespective of how humans experience it. “Jew haters” is just as much an ad category as “Moms who jog.” It’s all data. If Group A has a bigger presence on Facebook than Group B, so be it, even if Group A is trying to demean or organize violence against the Bs.That hands-off lack of moralising is a massive problem, arguably even moreso for Twitter where contrary opinion is easy to find and attack. Nikhil Sonnad's argument is that Facebook doesn't want to censor, instead wanting to create connections and, in some sense, take the data scientist view of creating a data set that's representative rather than biased.
But as Sonnah rightly states, there's a problem with this approach:
Of course, the reality is that humans are all different, and cannot be reduced to data.