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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wants to fix 'filter bubbles' on the social network
[...] Dorsey noted that the site by design allows users to follow certain accounts, which could skew their perception of the world. If users followed a certain topic or interest, they might see more tweets from people with different viewpoints, he said.
Twitter needs to give users more tools to break down these bubbles, Dorsey acknowledged.
But as social media sites face allegations that it's suppressing conservative voices, these companies are also grappling with free speech concerns.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Wants to Fix 'Filter Bubbles' on the Social Network
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When I met th'POPE back in '58, I scrubbed him with a MILD SOAP or
DETERGENT for 15 minutes. He seemed to enjoy it ...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by urza9814 on Friday October 19 2018, @05:36PM (14 children)
I think they're focused on the wrong filter. Focus less on how users filter what they receive, and start looking at how users filter what they *say*. People think they're following *people* when they're actually following *topics*. For example, my girlfriend has three instagram accounts -- one for her friends, one for pictures of her dog, one for other pictures she takes. So then she ends up filtering how other people perceive her -- there's a version that's super into dogs and doesn't give a crap about anything else, there's another version that only cares about photography, etc. And she does that specifically to avoid certain comments. So people who love dogs can follow her dog profile without her getting dragged into political arguments or whatever. But that's precisely the problem -- you clearly have some level of respect for the people you follow, and maybe it would change your opinions if you ever actually saw theirs, but you don't. Because they don't want you to. Because they sanitize everything they post to be minimally offensive to a particular audience. THAT is the real "filter bubble".
And a large part of that started when employers started abusing social networks as free background check services. That seems to be what got everyone convinced that they need to start filtering themselves and creating private profiles. That plus every minor celebrity having every marginally offensive tweet dissected day after day by the media who somehow thinks this crap is "news"...
If Twitter *really* wants to do something about this, they'll add a ban on this kind of crap into their terms of service and start prosecuting abuse.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @05:44PM (12 children)
I don't get this desire to share crappy pictures with everyone and everyone's dog.
It sounds like the kind of activity you'd program an automaton to engage in, so as to appear social. So, now, imagine a world filled with such automatons, trapped in a situation where they're all talking to each other, all trying to fit in like sentient beings. That's what this is; that's the situation social media has created.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:10PM (11 children)
pot. kettle. black.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:16PM (10 children)
pot. kettle black.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @06:17PM (9 children)
pot. kettle. black. :P
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:22PM (8 children)
Black is the pot, black is the kettle, redundancy can't exist without itself.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @08:51PM (7 children)
Pot. Kettle. Black. ^_^
(Score: 4, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday October 19 2018, @10:20PM (6 children)
NPC is the new SJW? PKB? WTF? All you alt-rightwing nutjobs need to appraise the rest of the community we you switch out derogatory acronyms like that, or it just makes you more, if that were possible, incomprehensible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @10:42PM
Watch MSNBC for 1 hour and then CNN for 15 minutes to receive the patch signal.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @12:18AM
I think we can read NPC is the new SJW, except this time the irony is on the accuser's part. SJW derives from "keyboard warrior" so retains its sarcastic tone. The "social justice" aspect can also be sarcastic because most people the term is meant to describe support capitalism, and capitalism promotes social injustice, but this is likely lost on alt-righties.
NPC, however, has maximum irony, because the speaker in that case tends to, well, act like a Non-Player Character. I believe what NPC is trying to get at is the authoritarian follower instinct. So as we can see, this will make even Acme's top of the line irony meter overload and explode spectacularly, because the people using the term are, themselves, right-wing authoritarian followers. The solipsism angle is just a bonus.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @12:23AM (3 children)
Pisses you off to be called a 'bot' huh? Maybe you should not dehumanize others? Do not like the mirror being held up? Maybe if you make more stereotypes of 'alt-right' people and 'those other people' and 'how only they are derogatory' you can get them to just listen to you huh? Maybe you can 'warn us' more?
OR how about you try listening to them and use the Socratic method and change their minds?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @08:32AM
They don’t have minds to change.
And if they did, they would be too hamfistedly stubborn, and you know it.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:16AM (1 child)
I listened. They are imbeciles. Totally devoid of reason, and totally ignorant of the world about them. Change their minds? No, you just punch people like that in the face, since that is the only thing Proud Incels understand. I do not dehumanize, they have made themselves deplorables, the incorrigables, the irredeemable. And you, oh slovenly AC, have just cast your lot with the Nazis. We will hunt you down, listen to you when you testify before the Tribunal, and confess to your crimes against humanity. We ARE Anonymous. We do not forget. Expect us. You will pay for your intentional ignorance. Pay dearly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 20 2018, @12:07PM
Orange man bad
Nazi bad
Orange man nazi
#PunchNazis
(Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Friday October 19 2018, @06:17PM
They just need a simple virus [xkcd.com].