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> If my news feed is tainted by a group like CA manipulating it at the algorithm level, what hope can I have that anything I’m receiving over the Internet isn’t
by m52go 9y ago
> If my news feed is tainted by a group like CA manipulating it at the algorithm level, what hope can I have that anything I’m receiving over the Internet isn’t compromised?
Was it CA doing the manipulating, or was it Facebook?
It's Facebook that runs Facebook...CA was merely taking advantage of Facebook to the fullest extent it could.
I'm not saying what CA did was right, but your comment seems to suggest Facebook was somehow helplessly complicit in executing CA's malicious plan.
- fatbird 9y agoThey weren’t helpless, they were complicit, at least if early reports are still accurate that Facebook (meaning the Facebook employees who were actually assisting CA) knew what CA was doing while they advised CA on maximizing their data haul via the same techniques the Obama campaign had used in 2012 that had never been disabled. Facebook looks amoral and negligent in this story: All they cared about was making money by selling more data to a client with bottomless pockets. CA was using the data to maximize the effectiveness of their ratfucking operation, that depended upon understanding how Facebook’s newsfeed algorithms worked.