I'm really struggling with that. A lot of the refugee support networks go
through Facebook. The anarchists in Exarcheia refuse to use it but this is
one of many things that cut them off from solidarity with other volunteers.
Personally I want to help however I can, so I joined Facebook, which
previously i swore I'd never do.

On Fri, 20 May 2016 11:37 Caleb James DeLisle, <cjd@???> wrote:

> Lots of services are "centralized" to some degree, everybody knows it's bad
> but it works. I think it's important to explain why FB in particular is
> considered harmful.
>
> Experimenting on their users by adjusting the mix of content shown to them
> to be mostly depressing and seeing how they react:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#2014_emotion_manipulation_study
>
> Various obvious censorship of types of content such as that related to
> strife between kurdish people and turkish govt.
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Censorship
>
> What we don't know (can't prove) is that Facebook algorithms subtly act to
> marginalize and disempower activists. Weaponizing #1 for the purpose of #2
> would be an extremely powerful and toxic combination and because the FB
> platform does not have documented expected behavior (like twitter does),
> one can never know if they are being intentionally gaslighted[1] by the
> platform.
>
> So you can understand my reaction to a link which says "join us here
> https://facebo...."
>
> Thanks,
> Caleb
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting
>
> On 20/05/16 10:18, georg@??? wrote:
> > On 16-05-20 10:13:19, Dirk von Heinrichshorst wrote:
> >> Join us here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1734984760078775 :-)
> >
> > Posting a "Join us here Facebook link" to squatconf@? Serious? I hope
> > you're kidding..
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Georg
> >
> >
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