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It's like a cult, isn't it? In no world can what Facebook's ad system teams are doing be summarized by that level of autofellatio but Facebook. Hacker News is f
by kick 7y ago
It's like a cult, isn't it? In no world can what Facebook's ad system teams are doing be summarized by that level of autofellatio but Facebook. Hacker News is for intellectually stimulating discussions, not marketing-speak to mask false claims. For the record, your claims are primarily false. They pulled out of most of those countries a long while ago, after they realized "colonizer killing net neutrality" is a bad look.
https://theoutline.com/post/4383/facebook-quietly-ended-free-basics-in-myanmar-and-other-countries https://theoutline.com/post/4383/facebook-quietly-ended-free...
And the "small businesses" you describe are mostly MLM and anti-vaccine snake oil sellers, so I'm not sure why you feel good about it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/02/18/why-your-facebook-feed-is-drowning-in-dreadful-sales-pitches/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/02...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/11/15/majority-anti-vaccine-ads-facebook-were-funded-by-two-groups/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/11/15/majority-an...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/anti-vaccination-groups-still-crowdfunding-facebook-despite-crackdown-n1064981 https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/anti-vaccination-group...
With all the respect due, you've got blood on your hands. We have a word for that in civilized society; I think it's "murderer," but maybe they call it something different at Facebook.