[HN Gopher] More Than 1k Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work?
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More Than 1k Companies Boycotted Facebook. Did It Work?
Author : adrian_mrd
Score : 23 points
Date : 2020-08-01 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com)
| caiobegotti wrote:
| The boycott, more than anything internal to those companies (like
| reduced expending as an experiment during the pandemics), were a
| message instead of a direct hit at Facebook. Hubris can be a
| dangerous toy to play with and I hope for their best that folks
| at Facebook paid attention to this boycott and won't simply go
| "lalala you can't hurt us lalala".
| igravious wrote:
| The NY Times is an "old" media company. Facebook is a "new" media
| company. They are both chasing the same customers (advertisers)
| with the aim of lightening their customers pockets in return for
| putting their customers' brands in front of their audiences'
| eyeballs.
|
| Every old media company story about new media companies is
| potentially rife with conflicts of interest. Keep this in mind at
| all times.
| actuator wrote:
| It seems there is disagreement on this but to me it seems like
| a perfectly valid disclaimer to give, given the vested
| interest.
| igravious wrote:
| You and me both buddy :)
| Barrin92 wrote:
| my guess is because it's really just conjecture about the
| motivation of journalists or media and entirely unecessary.
| Also it kind of misunderstands how newspapers work, there is
| a huge firewall between the newsroom and ad business.
|
| Also this kind of scrutiny is rarely applied to tech sector
| content being posted here. Given the libertarian anti-
| regulatory bent that most of them have you could just dismiss
| it based on conflict of interest.
| igravious wrote:
| > Also this kind of scrutiny is rarely applied to tech
| sector content being posted here.
|
| My observation cuts both ways obviously. Presumably
| corporations have fixed advertising budgets. If they stop
| spending in one media space they'll reallocate spending to
| another.
|
| Am I being too cynical? Perhaps. Firewall or not, by way
| off analogy: Tesla is Volkswagen's competition and Facebook
| is the New York Times's competition.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| This is true, but I wish it were not. Once Facebook introduced
| the news panel, I stopped using it because everyone started
| hating each-other on facebook instead of just sharing pictures.
| igravious wrote:
| I'm not on Facebook, but I do frequent the Twitter-verse,
| there's a lot of hate there too recently. (A friend of mine
| who is a longtime hardcore Twitter user says that it wasn't
| like that in the old days.) Maybe there's just a lot of hate
| out there at the moment regardless of the platform? I don't
| even really know what the news panel is to be honest. Do
| Facebook do their own journalism now or do they curate news
| stories like Google News?
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