11-06-2016, 05:55 PM
The article makes a valid point and it is concerning:
Facebook is especially problematic here, and they are in denial about the problem, as the article argues, convincingly.
Quote:Things are very different on the modern internet. Most people today don’t get their news by going to the home page of CNN or the New York Times. They open a social media app — most often Facebook — and read news stories that pop up in their news feed. The result has been a disaster for the public’s understanding of current affairs. Reporters have come under increasing pressure to write “clickbait” articles that pander to readers’ worst impulses. Too-good-to-check stories gain more traction online than stories that are balanced and thoroughly reported. That has worsened the nation’s political polarization and lowered the quality of democratic discourse.Facebook is harming our democracy, and Mark Zuckerberg needs to do something about it - Vox
Facebook is especially problematic here, and they are in denial about the problem, as the article argues, convincingly.