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Bloomberg and friends are just panicked over the fact that they're losing control of the narrative, which is really their main product.

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Yep, they are panicked by a single giant corporation with billions of users that earns money collecting data from everyone.

Me too.

6 people controlling your bubble is still better than 5. Especially if the new guy is at war with the old guys.

Not when the 6th guy controls more bubbles than the other 5 combined, and more than any government in history.. and also happens to have direct access to most of the private communications of the people on that platform.

Bloomberg doesn't know what you said to your mother earlier today, probably doesn't have a list of everyone you know, and doesn't know where you went for lunch today.

Bloomberg has something better, as far as narrative peddling is concerned: it is perceived as reputable.

The vast majority of Facebook users accept the things Facebook presents to them as fact.

Very few of them would ever see a Bloomberg article unless it showed up in their feed (which is something Facebook's black box has final say over).

>> The vast majority of Facebook users accept

And 86% of all statistics are made up on the spot. Do you have any data to support your claim?

If you're going to ask for data, you should have offered some first yourself, upthread, where you made a claim or two.

Pretty much. You don't see nearly so much panic about the Twitter filter bubble because journalists consider it home, even though it's no less filter-bubbly and even though there's been no end of bogus claims that have spread virally through it - a surprising number of them started by real journalists.

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