This weekend brought us both a big New York Times piece titled “The Internet is Broken: @ev Is Trying to Salvage It” and a Guardian article about Facebook’s guidelines for content moderators. Both speak to the question of who controls content on the Internet and how that control impacts our attention. Ev makes the point that extremes attract more attention compared to a more moderate or balance view. Therefore advertising based systems, which require attention which they then partially resel...
