Jeff Zuckerberg
Recently, Facebook, like YouTube and other venues has moved to de-monetize, even eliminate groups they now see as problematic. Facebook recently took down a massive number of "controversial" pages; "Facebook announced on Thursday that 559 pages had been deleted for flooding their platform with politically-oriented spam, according to Washington Post.
"Among the pages taken down were notorious anti-police pages for Cop Block, The Free Thought Project, and Police the Police, which had roughly seven million followers between them."
Many of these groups, I have no use for, BUT such online forums are supposed to be open to all.pro cop, anti-Cop, Commie, Nazi, Anarchist, etc. Like TV, we can change the channel. We can simply not by the book, the movie ticket, etc.
"Facebook said that the primary reasoning behind the pages' removal was because of coordinated spam and fake "likes" to game Facebook's algorithm and increase their reach."
IF that's the case (and it's probably not) then why not simply fix the program?
What is defined as "spam"?
How are "fake likes" determined?
WHY can't Facebook's algorithm be fixed, instead of groups and speech silenced?
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