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Is it really the case that they are only hurting themselves? The effect of targeted advertising on platforms such as Facebook seems to have had a very negative

• logicprog 7y ago
  I'm not sure I see that, but I'd be willing to consider that possibility if there was any data to back that up instead of hysterical op-eds and articles. I see a lot of those, but not a lot in the way of convincing evidence. Although, FB in general doesn't seem to help the political discourse, I don't think it's anyone's job to decide what ways of communication and discussion are right for a democracy, because if you control where people can speak and what they can say, it's a short step until you control how they vote.