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This sounds like a non-issue. > Facebook allowed The Times to target ads to users Facebook has determined are interested in Goebbels, the Third Reich’s chief p
by buboard 8y ago
This sounds like a non-issue.
> Facebook allowed The Times to target ads to users Facebook has determined are interested in Goebbels, the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and leader of the SS, and Mengele, the infamous concentration camp doctor who performed human experiments on prisoners. Each category included hundreds of thousands of users.
If i make a documentary about goebbels' life i shouldn't be able to advertise it? How about even selling it? I think this is crossing the line of fake outrage.
- s_m_t 8y agoShit, I guess I'm a Nazi because I like history. Edit: Just checked my bookshelf and I might also be a genghis khan sympathizer.
- whoisjuan 8y agoThis. I think I have searched for Nazi-related stuff a lot in the past when watching documentaries or reading WWII books. I think this goes without saying, but I'm NOT a sympathizer of Nazi ideology. I just enjoy learning. By this rationale, I should be in a hate crime watchlist already.
- bArray 8y agoI was literally about to make the same comment. It's guilt by association. Researching these topics does not mean you are a Nazi. In this case, Facebook did nothing wrong. One can have an interest in history without being a Nazi. One can have a history in Nazis without being one. This is unbelievably poor reporting, the headline does not reflect the actual content and the wrong conclusions are drawn. LA Times, in particular Sam Dean, should be ashamed.