Face it, Facebook. You’re in the news business. – The Washington Post

Face it, Facebook. You’re in the news business.

With live video of shootings, social media platforms must grapple with their own power.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/face-it-facebook-youre-in-the-news-business/2016/07/10/cc53cd70-451a-11e6-bc99-7d269f8719b1_story.html

“There’s clearly an editorial process in which Silicon Valley companies are deciding what to put back up,” often in response to protests from viewers, said Zeynep Tufekci of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. This sometimes happens after users have flagged an item as offensive, resulting in its being removed in the first place. She thinks that is what happened with Reynolds’s video. Facebook has called it a technical glitch.