Facebook is bad for human brains.
If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
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#12Facebook is bad for human brains.
I would extend this to all social media.
Re: If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
#13The article is not about privacy violations per se, and a single individual quitting Facebook would not help the issue.
The article is attempting to raise awareness of how Facebook’s mode of operation (or its vulnerability to certain kinds of exploitation) can render fair elections impossible.
Notably, it’s written by the same journalist who exposed the scandal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, featured heavily in both Trump election campaign and (more importantly, given this is UK media) Brexit campaign.
Her TED talk (yes I know, but still) from 2019 may also be worth watching.
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#14> Zuckerberg says Black Lives Matter and yet we know Donald Trump used Facebook’s tools to deliberately suppress [1] and deny black and Latino people the vote. With no consequences.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-th...
> The Trump team’s effort to discourage young women by rolling out Clinton accusers and drive down black turnout in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood with targeted messages about the Clinton Foundation’s controversial operations in Haiti is an odd gambit. Campaigns spend millions on data science to understand their own potential supporters—to whom they’re likely already credible messengers—but here Trump is speaking to his opponent’s. Furthermore, there’s no scientific basis for thinking this ploy will convince these voters to stay home. It could just as easily end up motivating them.
Nowhere in that article is anything about denying black people a vote. Even if Trump did that, that does not negate that Zuckerberg thinks Black Lives Matter.
I am sick and tired of politics and sourness masquerading as bad journalism. Step up the game now, or forever deserve the awful Fake News moniker. The United States needs an impartial factual news media now more than ever. Forget the clicks for a month or three.
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#15I think this world would be better with out these fake ass journalists. Facebook sucks, but so do the people who write garbage like this.
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#16The article is not about privacy violations per se, and a single individual quitting Facebook would not help the issue. The article is attempting to raise awareness of how Facebook’s mode of operation (or its vulnerability to certain kinds of exploitation) can render fair elections impossible. Notably, it’s written by the same journalist who exposed the scandal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, featured heavil…
She sounds like a whiny piece of shit.
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#17Why is this article flagged? I'm curious.
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#18> In 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. I'll just leave this here, from 2014: https://salimvirani.com/facebook/
> from 2014
The first line of the article reads:
"I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015 (...)"
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#19Why is this article flagged? I'm curious.
I suspect there's some fb astroturfing going on on this site. And that's not me trying to be a crazy conspiracy theorist, there's a few signs that point to that
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#20Trump won because Democrats did Bernie wrong not because Facebook displayed ads to people who were more likely to vote the way they did anyway. Democrats are always whining about the wrong things instead of addressing problems from the standpoint their supporters see every day. Trump will win again because of this, not because of social media advertising.
I think it's fair to say there can be more than one reason to why things happen.