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...and the article is not about Facebook.

• rgbrenner 9y ago
  yes it is. It's 100% about facebook. Ads on the internet have been around for 25 years. Google alone has been selling ads for 18 years. What do you imagine caused them to write this story 2 days after Zuckerbergs apology testimony to congress?
  • nixpulvis 9y ago
    The recent motivation might be Facebook, it it's absolutely true that the internet as a whole is suffering. How bad has it been in the past, how much is a skewed lens is up for debate.
  • nickbauman 9y ago
    Ads have never been used quite the way they have in 2016 on Facebook. The network effects happen to be extremely strong for Facebook in particular but it could have been any incumbent that was the platform of greatest damage. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean we don't have a real problem here.
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  • nickbauman 9y ago
    And it's not even all about ads. Troll armies were not a thing until a few years ago.