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Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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Re: Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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I saw it coming a few months ago. Didn't you? There is a group of people/organizations acting as puppet masters, dictating what's going to be the next big topic. This is a lot more scarier than the FB story itself. It would be great if someone starts digging it out and uncover what's really happening, who are they and what their motives are.

Media started feeding us stories how social networks are "bad for you", then slowly ramped up to give us the "piece de resistance": your soul (your data) has been sold to the devil.

Come on, isn't anyone else seeing it?!

ps: we have been programmed to believe this is not happening so i won't be surprised if this gets down-voted by the sheeple...

ps#2: it might not be a group or organization but just the result of a poorly built internet eco-system.

Re: Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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This is probably the most even keeled and concise analysis of this story to date, with a reasonable laymans exposition on the technical subtlety between what CA did starting in 2013 and what the Obama Administration did in 2012.

Not sure that it's a perfectly direct line between [Trump won] > (Facebook is to blame), because the story seems to be mostly about user data, but it's pretty close.

Re: Facebook is America’s scapegoat du jour

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I saw it coming a few months ago. Didn't you? There is a group of people/organizations acting as puppet masters, dictating what's going to be the next big topic. This is a lot more scarier than the FB story itself. It would be great if someone starts digging it out and uncover what's really happening, who are they and what their motives are. Media started feeding us stories how social networks are "bad for you", then…

What do you mean exactly?
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