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on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:17AM
from the truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth dept.
from the truth-and-nothing-but-the-truth dept.
Despite the best efforts of Mark Zuckerberg to downplay Facebook's role in the election of Donald Trump, the scrutiny of how fake news is spread on the platform has intensified.
Buzzfeed News is reporting that "more than dozens" of Facebook employees have created an unofficial task force dedicated to addressing the issue.
Buzzfeed quoted one member of that task force, who did not want to be named over fears for their job.
"[Mark Zuckerberg] knows, and those of us at the company know, that fake news ran wild on our platform during the entire campaign season," the source said.
The election shook out the way it did because there were ways around the narrative the media was pushing?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @12:58PM
The sad part is that the overwhelming majority of those "protesting" the outcome across the country didn't go out and vote. More than two-thirds of those 30 and under can't even be bothered to vote. A lot of them, like many who post here, are just too cool to vote. You can't be the nihilistic "insightful" commentator of politics (throwing around "MSM" and "elites" and such) if you actually go and vote! It would have taken only a small number of those to take their pompous sticks out of their collective asses to have gone and cast a ballot in a half-dozen states for them to have flipped to Clinton, if they didn't want Trump to win. This was yet another razor's edge election.
When one party wins a squeaker, especially if the winner just barely takes, or even just barely loses, the popular vote, there are the tiresome cries of "we need to fix the electoral college system!" No, we need to fix the "go out and vote" system. To the 60 to 70 percent of you out there, get off your collective asses and actively participate in your government. If you can't take 30 minutes out of your day to cast a vote, then just STFU and let the grownups make the decisions for you (which is what most people want, because then they can bitch about it and claim that "I didn't vote for XXX").
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 16 2016, @04:29PM
With as crappy as both MSPP candidates were, this
The sad part is that the overwhelming majority of those "protesting" the outcome across the country didn't go out and vote. More than two-thirds of those 30 and under can't even be bothered to vote. A lot of them, like many who post here, are just too cool to vote. You can't be the nihilistic "insightful" commentator of politics (throwing around "MSM" and "elites" and such) if you actually go and vote!
comes off as blaming the victim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @12:13AM
Sorry, but if you didn't bother to cast a vote then, yes, you are the problem. Not liking either of the two major party candidates is not an excuse for sitting out the election. Even a sizeable minority casting votes for a third party candidate sends a powerful message to the two major parties: either clean up your act or be prepared to see others eat your lunch in front of you come next election!