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Facebook is a 'Living, Breathing Crime Scene'

posted by Fnord666 on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:05PM   
from the crimes-scenes-want-to-be-anthropomorphized dept.

canopic jug writes:

While there are still lessons to be learned from how the Russians used the social platform to sow discord ahead of America's 2016 presidential election, critics say Facebook — and Zuckerberg — aren't acting quickly enough to prevent meddling in the upcoming midterm elections.

"Facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election — and only they have full access to what happened," said Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google. His work centers on how technology can ethically steer the thoughts and actions of the masses on social media and he's been called "the closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience" by The Atlantic magazine.

Source : Facebook is a 'living, breathing crime scene,' says one former tech insider

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• The Russians, the Russians, the Russians The Russians, the Russians, the Russians (Score: 3, Insightful) by Tangaroa on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:00PM (2 children)

  by Tangaroa (682) on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:00PM (#625649) Homepage

  So Russian intelligence tried to influence the US election, which is their job. There is so much at stake in an American presidential election that everyone had an interest in trying to influence the American voter. No one is talking about the Chinese. No one is talking about the Arabs or the Iranians. No one is talking about European parties and transnational corporate interests. No one was talking about the Mexicans or the drug lords who really run things or the foreign powers who run the drug lords. Every story that focuses only on the Russians is distracting from everybody else.

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• Re:The Russians, the Russians, the Russians Re:The Russians, the Russians, the Russians (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:53PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:53PM (#625672)

  It's sounds like there's a worldwide conspiracy. Does it sound like one to you? What's your real name, friend?

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  • Re:The Russians, the Russians, the Russians (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @04:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @04:21PM (#625686)

    Doesn't sound like a conspiracy to me. It's just the way things are. This is what it means to have free speech.

    Most of the actors GP identified aren't working for the Anunnaki anyway.

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