Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/09/29/when-outliers-attack.html
…
6 Likes
There’s no reason to think that Facebook intentionally suppressed embarrassing news about its own business.
There’s no reason to think they didn’t, either.
2 Likes
Wait, what?
When news broke yesterday that Facebook had suffered a breach affecting at least 50,000,000 stories…
Should that be 50 million people?
3 Likes
Industrialized mass production requires a market to buy its output. If mass produced socializing is what they have to sell, then by God, we are going to buy it!
I first noticed this when OK Cupid would robotically ‘flirt’ on my behalf. It made me feel like Jon Henry and the steam hammer.
1 Like
I don’t get the theory - in my experience spam is not something that everyone sends, spam is something that a few accounts with not much other verified traffic sends to everyone. What, in the architecture of Facebook or other details that I am unaware of, would cause this logic to flip?
1 Like
This topic was automatically closed after 5 days. New replies are no longer allowed.
