Tuesday, October 27, 2020

I’m Co-Chair of the Mother Jones Union. Facebook Hurt Our Members to Play Politics. – Mother Jones

...After all of that, it was galling to hear that Mark Zuckerberg—a man who has spun his dorm-room version of Hot or Not for rating female classmates' appearance into an estimated net worth of over $100 billion—personally signed off on a plan to limit our journalism from being read by our fans (since after all, our stories only show up in your Facebook feed if you've liked our page or a story was shared by one of your friends). Meanwhile, Zuckerberg was having conservative pundit Ben Shapiro over to his home for dinner (unclear if they killed the night's feast together first) despite Facebook's own fact-checkers flagging Shapiro's Daily Wire as a peddler of misinformation, whereas we're a publication that has staked our reputation on building a robust system of internal fact-checking...




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