These anti Facebook and anti social media articles are so ubiquitous on hn now, that is starting to feel like a campaign. All too sudden, there is too many of them.
Anti-facebook articles have been common on HN for years, and it's particularly ubiquitous right now because of all the powerful negative influence it's having in politics.
> Media sources designed to target confirmation biases, echo chambers, and viral fake news
So you mean basically every political campaigns? Not sure how in touch you are with local politics, but the local political TV ads I see every night have been like this for years
You're right, I mean (many) of those too. People have been discussing negative and positive effects (on all sides of the political spectrum) of television and TV ads for a long time.
Now we're discussing Facebook, because it just recently gained so much of this power, and it seems to be uniquely good at causing these negative symptoms.
i think it is just that we are witnessing how the national media moves into a story and then after the audience grows tired of it, they move on. we are particularly aware of this happening, because the "national discussion" has moved into talking about tech right now. in time, the conversation will shift onto something else.
