The influence of Facebook “should definitely be taken very seriously, because it kind of exposes certain fault lines that I think people have not been paying attention to before: The way that you can peddle conspiracy theories the same way you can peddle shoes, and the fact that the platform is built for virality. The fact that its user interface flattens things so much that the fake Denver Guardian looks the same as the New York Times. The fact that outrageous stuff, or very feel-good stuff, really does well on the platform algorithmically.” – Zeynep Tufekci, interviewed at Slate. The whole interview is worth reading.
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