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How would you feel if China offered Americans $5 to vote for the candidate of their choice? Or paid people to speak on that candidates behalf without disclosing
by jncfhnb 3y ago
How would you feel if China offered Americans $5 to vote for the candidate of their choice? Or paid people to speak on that candidates behalf without disclosing it as advertising? Or paid twitter to hide certain topics while promoting certain topics without classifying them as ads or promoted? Or if they were social media and just started lying to you about your social circle’s public opinion?
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- coldpie 3y agoHow would you feel about Facebook doing any of that?
- jncfhnb 3y agoI would feel very bad, but I would also expect a whistleblower to intervene “eventually”. Many of these things are explicitly illegal. And it would be kind of shocking for executive leadership at Facebook to decide this was worth the risk. YMMV for different scales of influence. I don’t trust Facebook at all. But they’re not an antagonistic nation state.