On 21/1/19 1:31 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:
... Society figured out how to manage the waste produced by the Industrial Revolution. We must do the same thing with the Internet today. ...
Facebook is working as designed. It was not intended to provide a news service to the public, but to sell them stuff. It does this by showing you things you will like, based on past preferences and what your friends like.
If you want a quality news service, that could be created. But who is going to pay for it? Keep in mind that whoever pays, gets to decide what is news, and what is not.
For decades news was funded by advertising. But then Google and Facebook found they could sell the ads without the news. If we not willing to pay for a quality news service, how can it be provided?
What we could perhaps have is are some third party apps like a spam filter applied to web content. This would mark what it though was fake news. -- Tom Worthington, MEd FHEA FACS CP http://www.tomw.net.au +61(0)419496150 TomW Communications Pty Ltd. PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia Liability limited by a scheme approved under Prof. Standards Legislation Honorary Lecturer, Computer Science, Australian National University https://cecs.anu.edu.au/research/profile/tom-worthington _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
