Facebook Bullshit Round-Up

There's a lot of it.

 Wall Street Journal:

At a meeting with Facebook, HuffPost EIC Lydia Polgreen and BuzzFeed News EIC Ben Smith criticized the social network's one-sided deference to conservatives  —  Critique comes just before social-media executives are to appear before House committee  —  At a private meeting late last week …

Discussion:

Amy Russo / Mediaite:   BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Slams Daily Caller for ‘Nativist Garbage’ and ‘Immunity to Shame’ in Leaked Email

Kara Swisher / Recode:   Media — both on the left and right — are pressing Facebook to define what journalism is

Noah Chestnut / @noahchestnut:   on this exchange between @MikeIsaac and @antoniogm gets at why I'm towards Facebook. **Facebook too easily equates journalism with propaganda***. I can't fathom why any product or engineering manager at FB who fails to interrogate this keeps their job. pic.twitter.com/xJ8cd5Yb1P

Media Matters for America:   Facebook once again gives special treatment to conservative media

John Bonazzo / Observer:   It's a Mistake for Facebook to Woo The Daily Caller in a Quest for ‘Balance’

Sam Biddle / @samfbiddle:   I think it's very possible the “philosophical” concerns at facebook largely exist to justify the “money or audience” concerns at facebook, whether that's conscious or not

Judd Legum / @juddlegum:   On Thursday, Facebook had another off-the-record meeting for publications that was heavily weighted toward the right-wing They think the Daily Caller is the conservative counterpart to the NYT It's really screwed up http://www.wsj.com/...

Brian Tashman / @briantashman:   Ted Deutch asks Facebook rep about how it is becoming “overly deferential” to conservative sites, mentioning conspiracy theory outlets like InfoWars that harass Parkland survivors http://www.wsj.com/...

Kara Swisher / @karaswisher:   Media — both on the left and right — are pressing Facebook to define what journalism is. Welcome to the 10th ring of media hell, Mark Zuckerberg! http://www.recode.net/... http://twitter.com/...

Ryan Mac / @rmac18:   I don't understand how this is defined as “nuance.” Facebook doesn't think Infowars is news, but still allows them to self-identify as “News and Media.” That's not nuance, that's just confusing and a disservice to users. http://www.recode.net/... http://twitter.com/...

Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel:   these facebook meetings with editors/reporters appear to be to clear the air, but instead they continue to create new problems! http://www.recode.net/...

MarleneJ / @mjaeckel:   Before we question journalistic standards at conservative outlets, let's address copy editing at the WSJ. The correct plural form of ‘editor in chief’ is ‘editors in chief’. As for Buzzfeed and HuffPost being critical of Daily Caller: Pot, meet kettle. http://twitter.com/...

Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller:   The problem isn't that FB is overly deferential to viewpoints representing power, that is a symptom. The problem is that Facebook is *in charge* of the newsfeed for 2 billion people. http://twitter.com/...

Daphne Keller / @daphnehk:   Conservatives and liberals both think social media companies are biased against them. http://www.wsj.com/...

@ceciliakang:   Here's the good WSJ story on publishing execs complaining to Facebook the social media site is way too deferential to conservative media: http://www.wsj.com/...

@mikeisaac:   what i legit do not understand is why facebook feels the need to constantly apologize and act deferential to conservatives when far-right and right-leaning outlets already dominate social sharing and have outmaneuvered the left in doing so for quite some time

Josh Gondelman / @joshgondelman:   Is it possible (asked in good faith!) that they know where their bread is buttered and don't want to lose those demographics?

Libby Watson / @libbycwatson:   my first story for gizmodo was about facebook throwing a party with the daily caller for trump's inauguration http://gizmodo.com/... http://twitter.com/...

Chris Zappone / @chrizap:   “Facebook had bought into the idea, promoted primarily by conservatives, that mainstream outlets such as the New York Times are liberal and should be counterbalanced by right-leaning opinion outlets.” http://www.wsj.com/...

 Nick Statt / The Verge:

A reporter posing as a Dublin Facebook moderator found that pages from far-right groups face looser content standards; Facebook vows to improve its training  —  A new documentary details how third-party Facebook moderators ignore the company's rules  —  An investigative journalist …

Discussion:

Alex Hern / The Guardian:   Facebook protects far-right activists even after rule breaches

Seung Lee / Mercury News:   Facebook admits ‘mistakes’ in its moderators failing to remove disturbing content: report

Monika Bickert / Facebook:   Working to Keep Facebook Safe

What cretinous morons. Except for the deliberate liars.