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Watching 60 minutes interview with Ms. Frances Haugen a former product manager hired by Facebook to help protect against election interference who said FB had "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.
www.cbsnews.com
WOW... how novel..(SARCASM!!!).
I'm not defending FB as I've been banned for my comments so I have no problem with this whistleblower's exposures.
BUT coming from CBS NEWS???
FACT is MSM follows these findings from this study:
Psychology: Why bad news dominates the headlines
www.bbc.com
"Why is the news filled with disaster and corruption?
It may be because we’re drawn to depressing stories without realising, says psychologist Tom Stafford
Participants often chose stories with a negative tone – corruption, set-backs, hypocrisy and so on – rather than neutral or positive stories. People who were more interested in current affairs and politics were particularly likely to choose the bad news. And yet when asked, these people said they preferred good news. On average, they said that the media was too focussed on negative stories. The researchers present their experiment as solid evidence of a so called "negativity bias", psychologists' term for our collective hunger to hear, and remember bad news.
It isn't just schadenfreude, the theory goes, but that we've evolved to react quickly to potential threats.
Bad news could be a signal that we need to change what we're doing to avoid danger.
As you'd expect from this theory, there's some evidence that people respond quicker to negative words.
In lab experiments, flash the word “cancer”, “bomb” or “war” up at someone and they can hit a button in response quicker than if that word is “baby”, “smile” or “fun” (despite these pleasant words being slightly more common).
We are also able to recognize negative words faster than positive words, and even tell that a word is going to be unpleasant before we can tell exactly what the word is going to be."
So the reason FB, CBS news, etc. emphasis on "negative" stories is because most of us pay more attention to these exceptions.
I use the word EXCEPTION specifically, because most of you with any semblance of reality recognize a simple fact:
Bad events, people, etc. are the EXCEPTION! If the situation was reversed, more bad events, etc. WE WOULDN"T BE ALIVE!!!
Whistleblower: Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, violence, misinformation
Frances Haugen says in her time with Facebook she saw, "conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for Facebook." Scott Pelley reports.
www.cbsnews.com
WOW... how novel..(SARCASM!!!).
I'm not defending FB as I've been banned for my comments so I have no problem with this whistleblower's exposures.
BUT coming from CBS NEWS???
FACT is MSM follows these findings from this study:
Psychology: Why bad news dominates the headlines
Psychology: Why bad news dominates the headlines
Why is the news filled with disaster and corruption? It may be because we’re drawn to depressing stories without realising, says psychologist Tom Stafford
www.bbc.com
It may be because we’re drawn to depressing stories without realising, says psychologist Tom Stafford
Participants often chose stories with a negative tone – corruption, set-backs, hypocrisy and so on – rather than neutral or positive stories. People who were more interested in current affairs and politics were particularly likely to choose the bad news. And yet when asked, these people said they preferred good news. On average, they said that the media was too focussed on negative stories. The researchers present their experiment as solid evidence of a so called "negativity bias", psychologists' term for our collective hunger to hear, and remember bad news.
It isn't just schadenfreude, the theory goes, but that we've evolved to react quickly to potential threats.
Bad news could be a signal that we need to change what we're doing to avoid danger.
As you'd expect from this theory, there's some evidence that people respond quicker to negative words.
In lab experiments, flash the word “cancer”, “bomb” or “war” up at someone and they can hit a button in response quicker than if that word is “baby”, “smile” or “fun” (despite these pleasant words being slightly more common).
We are also able to recognize negative words faster than positive words, and even tell that a word is going to be unpleasant before we can tell exactly what the word is going to be."
So the reason FB, CBS news, etc. emphasis on "negative" stories is because most of us pay more attention to these exceptions.
I use the word EXCEPTION specifically, because most of you with any semblance of reality recognize a simple fact:
Bad events, people, etc. are the EXCEPTION! If the situation was reversed, more bad events, etc. WE WOULDN"T BE ALIVE!!!
