There are plenty of other social networks: Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. But even given all that, if we still think Facebook has so much power that we're afraid of it fact-checking political ads, we should just break it up.
All those other social networks fill other niches than facebook. You can't fully replace facebook with twitter or youtube, because they are intended for different use cases.
It's like saying that if the electric company is refusing to provide service at your home address, you should just use gas instead. Not the same. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t buy it. Electricity and gas are two clearly distinct things; the lines between the social networks are much more nebulous. Can you enumerate the various social network “niches”?
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There are plenty of other social networks: Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, etc. But even given all that, if we still think Facebook has so much power that we're afraid of it fact-checking political ads, we should just break it up.
All those other social networks fill other niches than facebook. You can't fully replace facebook with twitter or youtube, because they are intended for different use cases.
It's like saying that if the electric company is refusing to provide service at your home address, you should just use gas instead. Not the same. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t buy it. Electricity and gas are two clearly distinct things; the lines between the social networks are much more nebulous. Can you enumerate the various social network “niches”?