The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe
The network, which markets itself as a neutral platform, has a huge role in shaping what's considered culturally acceptable around the world.
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The Washington Post · Caitlin Dewey
In the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box -- and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national debate.
The dialogue box is part of Facebook's content-reporting process, the means by which users can request that the social network censor their friends. The six words appeared to invite Spanish users to report on a new category of things: Under the option "it's inappropriate, it annoys me, or I don't like it," Facebook listed Spain's millennium-old national pastime, bullfighting.
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