[goalieca]

> “There’s too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, wrote in a post on Friday. “We decided that having the community determine which sources are broadly trusted would be most objective.”

Is this truly ignorance or is it malice?

[excalibur]

It's arrogance. Zuck wants to be in control of which sources are seen as trustworthy and which are not, but he doesn't want to actually be on the hook for making these decisions. So he implements a faux-democratic facade, and gets to make the actual calls behind the scenes by tweaking algorithms. He wants to have his cake and eat it too.

[threeseed]

Let's be clear here. Facebook is a private website.

They legally, morally and ethically have the right to determine what content their users see. Especially given that we have demonstrated evidence of fake news being disseminated.

The idea that this was supposed to be a democratic process was never claimed nor should it have been expected.

[te_chris]

They are, for now, as most monopoly industries were before their negative effects caught the attention of govts and they suddenly found themselves regulated.

[0xfeba]

> They legally, morally and ethically have the right to determine what content their users see.

Um, legally, sure. Morally and ethically is not up to them.