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If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention
- heldrida 6y agoWhy is this article flagged? I'm curious.
- annadane 6y agoI suspect there's some fb astroturfing going on on this site. And that's not me trying to be a crazy conspiracy theorist, there's a few signs that point to that
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- WalterSear 6y agoHacker news attracts people of all kinds.
- thiscatis 6y agoIt's been a while since The Guardian wrote a deep-state Facebook article.
- jjgreen 6y ago... and next to the article, a "share on Facebook" button
- nix23 6y agoActivate the anti-social filter-list in uBlock ;)
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- pmlnr 6y ago> In 2016, we didn’t know. We were innocent. We still believed social media connected us and that connections were good. I'll just leave this here, from 2014: https://salimvirani.com/facebook/ https://salimvirani.com/facebook/
- cassianoleal 6y ago> from 2014 The first line of the article reads: "I originally wrote this for my friends and family in 2015 (...)"
- PhaedrusV 6y agoHave people decided that they need Facebook for some reason? Just delete your account. If you need photos, or groups, or contact, there's other services. A good ol' boycott will fix everything wrong about Facebook. No 'terror' required.
- nix23 6y agoWhen do's Zucki start to give away his 99% of wealth as he said?
- AndrewDucker 6y agoFacebook is where my brother posts photos of his kids. It's where my old friends (scattered around the world) let me know they're getting married, having kids, getting cancer, etc. I'd love it if they used their own blogs, like in the good old days. But until then that's where I have to go if I want to keep up with the people I care about.
- wayneftw 6y agoDo they care about you? If so, they might leave if you do. There has to be something better to go to of course...and I just don’t see that right now.
- theklr 6y agoThat’s a pipe dream. Been off for 2 years now. Shared my details with those who claimed they cared... unless I’m actively reaching out to them, I’m “forgettable.” Humans are lazy, not in a spiteful way it’s just convince > privacy.. and Facebook has dressed convenience over privacy ridiculously well.
- encom 6y agoI hate Facebook as much as the next guy, but Jesus Christ. It wouldn't be a Guardian article if they didn't blame everyone else for their own problems.
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- joe_momma 6y agoTrump won because Democrats did Bernie wrong not because Facebook displayed ads to people who were more likely to vote the way they did anyway. Democrats are always whining about the wrong things instead of addressing problems from the standpoint their supporters see every day. Trump will win again because of this, not because of social media advertising.
- Kaze404 6y agoI think it's fair to say there can be more than one reason to why things happen.
- joe_momma 6y agoYah very true, but the Bernie thing shows how disconnected the top of the democratic food chain is from the next generation of liberal voters. Education and the environment are two sticking points Bernie nailed. He deserved better and now the democratic base knows the best candidate on their own ticket can't be nominated. Shenanigans I say.
- theklr 6y agoI think it’s still an oversimplification that it’s just Bernie. On the ground his ideas work, but he doesn’t. That’s a big problem that Bernie stans still won’t acknowledge.
- joe_momma 6y agoWhen you're the POTUS you can make any idea happen. Ever hear about going to the moon or universal healthcare. Oversimplified or can't admit to it, Hillary didn't even have a concession speech, talk about feeling entitled.
- joe_momma 6y agoBut to be fair I first never thought it was entirely Bernie but rather Hillary's lack of attention in the Rust Belt and Coal States. She also did not appeal to women as some may think she should. There are a lot of reasons, but coming back to the Bernie thing, that really split the Democratic party in two, which you can see now with defund police movements.
- stransky 6y agoFacebook is bad for human brains.
- itg 6y agoI would extend this to all social media.
- strogonoff 6y agoThe article is not about privacy violations per se, and a single individual quitting Facebook would not help the issue. The article is attempting to raise awareness of how Facebook’s mode of operation (or its vulnerability to certain kinds of exploitation) can render fair elections impossible. Notably, it’s written by the same journalist who exposed the scandal around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, featured heavily in both Trump election campaign and (more importantly, given this is UK media) Brexit campaign. Her TED talk (yes I know, but still) from 2019 may also be worth watching.
- loraa 6y agoShe sounds like a whiny piece of shit.
- BickNowstrom 6y ago> Zuckerberg says Black Lives Matter and yet we know Donald Trump used Facebook’s tools to deliberately suppress [1] and deny black and Latino people the vote. With no consequences. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-th... > The Trump team’s effort to discourage young women by rolling out Clinton accusers and drive down black turnout in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood with targeted messages about the Clinton Foundation’s controversial operations in Haiti is an odd gambit. Campaigns spend millions on data science to understand their own potential supporters—to whom they’re likely already credible messengers—but here Trump is speaking to his opponent’s. Furthermore, there’s no scientific basis for thinking this ploy will convince these voters to stay home. It could just as easily end up motivating them. Nowhere in that article is anything about denying black people a vote. Even if Trump did that, that does not negate that Zuckerberg thinks Black Lives Matter. I am sick and tired of politics and sourness masquerading as bad journalism. Step up the game now, or forever deserve the awful Fake News moniker. The United States needs an impartial factual news media now more than ever. Forget the clicks for a month or three.
- loraa 6y agoI think this world would be better with out these fake ass journalists. Facebook sucks, but so do the people who write garbage like this.
- theklr 6y agoFor those claiming “the guardian” wrote this, you know how opinion columns work right?