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What is it about Facebook these days that every new thing they try is evil?

• sAbakumoff 9y ago
  It's not about what Facebook is doing, it's about how it's perceived. Many blame Facebook for the Brexit/Trump/ultra-right rise and see any step of the social media giant as evil. You know how they say...if a man connects lives of a billion people and fucks up one democracy, they don't call him a visionary, they call him evil.
  • RasputinsBro 9y ago
    In my opinion Brexit/Trump go back way before Facebook. Facebook was just another tool to be exploited for those with the agenda.
    • sAbakumoff 9y ago
      Indeed, there is a lot more in brexit/trump story, but not everything causes the Congressional Hearing on the foreign hostile state meddling in the 2016 election.
• thisacctforreal 9y ago
  They bought a service marketed as a privacy protection tool in order to monitor the traffic of its (largely unsuspecting) users, so they can know which startups to buy to prevent any competition or innovation. Perhaps Facebook doesn't mind appearing blatantly creepy and evil, and is happy to continue to live off the unbothered and ignorant users, a la the Nigerian prince scams[0]? [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-nigerian-scammers-say-they-are-from-nigeria/ https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/why-do-...
• krick 9y ago
  Wasn't it always?