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by freediver
2632 days ago
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Ad-driven business models ultimately lead to intelligence insulting outcomes. Whether you look at Google or Facebook, you can notice that these platforms have been highly optimized to produce and stimulate user experiences that are far from sensible or pleasant. The main product for both companies are ads. One uses massive distribution channel in terms of free internet search the other one in terms of free content. There is a sensible way to balance the delivery of the product (unlike other products like bread or transport, this one is in most cases an unwanted one - close to 1B ad blockers have been deployed on devices world wide) that assumes certain profit-negating levers to be pulled. Control of these levers is in full control of these companies. By choosing not to pull the lever these companies have created an environment in which common intelligence is insulted every day, and because this has gradually happened over a period of many years, we've grown oblivious to it for the most part. FB could (theoretically) hire 1 million workers to curate the platform at $50k/year. |
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Theoretically, no, Facebook could not spend nearly its entire annual revenue on content moderators and still have a platform to speak of.