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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
(Score: 4, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday January 21 2018, @04:33PM
I don't disagree with any of that, but another way I've seen it described is the legacy news spends 1% of their time complaining about foreign influence on the USA as though thats somehow bad, wrong, or illegal, and 99% of the time gleefully triumphing the USA influencing foreign nations as though thats destined by god and is a holy obligation. So we bombed three countries today and verbally threatened two and sent the navy to make a high speed pass at a third, but the real problem with the world is some Russian supposedly posted a pepe meme on facebook. Uh huh...
An interesting meme thats been rolling around lately is weaponizing the usual leftist hipster supports for immigration against the Russian witch hunt. Yo foreign influence is great they just want to introduce us to vodka and caviar and the food at their restaurants is gonna be great and its so great to see vibrancy and diversity... so what exactly is the problem with Russians "hacking" facebook?
(and also, WTF, the Russians? Why the Russians? Why not the Australians or the Congolese or the Chileans? I mean, if you're gonna make something up, freshly out of whole cloth, at least show the propaganda victims the respect of making up something creative, not badly retread a 70s James Bond movie plot)