Opinion: Fascists don't need op-ed pages. They already have Facebook and Google (via latimesopinion)
about the role and responsibility of a free press in a country teetering on the brink of authoritarianism.. No retractions. No fact check. Nothing.In case it wasn’t clear yet, fascists don’t need a New York Times op-ed to advance their movement. They already have an incredibly potent and willing partner in the shadowy algorithms of Big Tech.
The internet is a second reality of our own design, symbiotically connected to and colliding with the lives we live when nominally offline, yet one whose impact is too often ignored. While establishment media devolves into an esoteric — necessary and righteous, but esoteric — debate about the continued relevance and importance of Gatekeeping, Owens,, and countless other inflammatory conservative pundits like her, dominate the most important social media platforms unchecked.
, and currently has 1.4 million shares. The Cotton op-ed, for comparison, has now been shared 16,304 times on Facebook, according to CrowdTangle, a digital tool for measuring social media engagement.This is by design. Not implicitly, per se, but certainly complicity. Facebook’s own internal investigation into its suggestive content algorithm revealed that the platform is largelyand inflammatory content.
Google, however, also says search predictions can be removed if they violate the autocomplete policies, which include:“Hateful predictions against groups and individuals on the basis of race, religion or several other demographics. Violent predictions. Dangerous and harmful activity in predictions.”, though completely irrelevant— is the basis for commentators like Owens and others to paint his killing at the hands of the police as something other than tragic. Perhaps even something he deserved.
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