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by dannyr 2206 days ago
There is a big difference between a newspaper and Facebook (with over a billion users) spreading misinformation.

This is like comparing a match stick to jet fuel.

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As long as you never click on a comments button or scroll down on any page, which is basically what Facebook is in reverse.

The comment sections on NYT (apparently the "good" paper) is one of the worst places on the internet. Yet I'm totally okay with it existing because I understand stupid people exist, no matter how much (highly selective) censorship we allow to exist.

Not to mention the serious decline in quality of actual NYT content which seems to select heavily for this commenting audience. I've been reading them for well over a decade and the decline is obvious and full of misinformation daily. There's no winning this fight through letting some random minimum wage moderator FB or Twitter hires, with zero appeals process, or any transparency, and obvious biases, deleting a few articles or comments that offend the type of people who live in the bay area or whatever American city they hire in.

Except that Facebook use algorithms to promote posts to its billion users.
The comparison is between Facebook and the entire system of market pressure acting on thousands of newspapers, not between Facebook and one newspaper.