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Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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Re: Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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I bet half the people inside the bubble don't care. I don't care, for example.

You don't care, doesn't mean you SHOULD not care. Public apathy from smart people was probably behind what happened in 1930s Germany.

Ha ha, no. They were into it.

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Nah. People outside our bubble don't care.

> People outside our bubble don't care This time, it feels flipped. My Silicon Valley circles repeat that this will blow over in a week. Outside that bubble, wheels are turning for the first time (to my recollection).

I think you're just seeing two bubbles colliding.

For lack of a better term the New York bubble vs the Bay Area bubble.

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> People outside our bubble don't care This time, it feels flipped. My Silicon Valley circles repeat that this will blow over in a week. Outside that bubble, wheels are turning for the first time (to my recollection).

I think you're just seeing two bubbles colliding. For lack of a better term the New York bubble vs the Bay Area bubble.

It’s a New York, D.C., and London bubble, then, at the very least. (With strong support in Seattle, Dallas and Raleigh, too.)

Re: Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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https://www.google.com/ads/elections/ https://www.google.com/ads/elections/campaign-playbook/mobil... ze/ https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted... (lest the implication be misunderstood, it is that "hiding web pages" is a non-story, unless i have missed the authors point. online ads for candidates are still not regulated in the same way as similar ads on "traditional" broadcast media such as TV…

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Re: Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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Asked about the delisting, a Facebook spokesperson said that “a number of the studies have been archived, but they’re still available at the individual links.” Asked why the “Government and Politics” section had been removed entirely, the spokesperson did not reply. I’ll just bet they didn’t. “We’re covering our ass like it’s on fire” is probably a bad PR, move, but it’s painfully obvious that’s what’s happening. The…

That spokesperson should be ashamed of themselves. Absolutely disgusting.

Re: Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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https://www.google.com/ads/elections/ https://www.google.com/ads/elections/campaign-playbook/mobil... ze/ https://business.twitter.com/en/help/ads-policies/restricted... (lest the implication be misunderstood, it is that "hiding web pages" is a non-story, unless i have missed the authors point. online ads for candidates are still not regulated in the same way as similar ads on "traditional" broadcast media such as TV…

> "Win the moments that win elections." They aren't subtle about it. I also wouldn't mind as much if the tech industry were politically neutral - but its been shown time and time again that Silicon Valley, where a lot of this power is held, has a very obvious political bias.

Individual or company bias? Does Google discriminated between their customers? I can't recall any political groups complaining Google wouldn't take their money.

Re: Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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I think you're just seeing two bubbles colliding. For lack of a better term the New York bubble vs the Bay Area bubble.

It’s a New York, D.C., and London bubble, then, at the very least. (With strong support in Seattle, Dallas and Raleigh, too.)

I’ll throw Melbourne, AU into the bubble mix, and I have friends and family in Britain who recently got off Facebook.

Big bubble.

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Nah. People outside our bubble don't care.

You know, that is not true. Now, in your favor, they have not cared, despite the majority of this info being old, known. Context matters. This last election was very highly controversial. I get downvotes for more commentary, and I know why too. It's OK, but it does make this discussion a bit harder. Let's just say people have seen more about the ugly parts of politics than usual. The choices they had and why are trou…

It's all fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Every institution is under attacked. Traditional media, entertainment, scientists, police, democratic representatives, intelligence agencies... now our digitally-dependent society is realizing we can't trust the wires. America is becoming schizophrenic.

Re: Facebook hid webpages bragging of ability to influence elections

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know, that is not true. Now, in your favor, they have not cared, despite the majority of this info being old, known. Context matters. This last election was very highly controversial. I get downvotes for more commentary, and I know why too. It's OK, but it does make this discussion a bit harder. Let's just say people have seen more about the ugly parts of politics than usual. The choices they had and why are trou…

It's all fear, uncertainty, and doubt. Every institution is under attacked. Traditional media, entertainment, scientists, police, democratic representatives, intelligence agencies... now our digitally-dependent society is realizing we can't trust the wires. America is becoming schizophrenic.

That’s possibly less of an accident, and more of a strategy.

Adam Curtiss on ‘Oh Dearism’

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8moePxHpvok

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