MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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How a 119-Word Local Crime Brief Became Facebook’s Most-Shared Story of 2019
By artappraiser on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 3:33pm |A tale of accidental virality in the age of algorithms by Will Oremus @ Slate, about which Nate Silver says:
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https://slate.com/technology/2019/03/facebook-most-viral-story-texas-child-predator.html
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Speaking of the incompetent devil, Zuckerberg has an op-ed @ WaPo this afternoon (which begs the question: Why didn't he just publish his opinion on this on Facebook?! What does he need the old media for? Huh?
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by artappraiser on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 3:44pm
What's the line - "no one goes there anymore, it's too hard to get a table..."
by PeraclesPlease on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 4:52pm
Facebook doesn't produce content. They host content other people produce on their site and point to content on other sites. Then they collect data on those they host on Facebook and sell that information to advertisers. Zuckerberg knows exactly how much information he collects on the people who post on Facebook so he never puts anything interesting or even slightly revealing on his Facebook page.
by ocean-kat on Sat, 03/30/2019 - 5:31pm