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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @03:46AM
If one of those check-out counter tabloids that has UFO headlines every other week becoming popular enough to shape the decisions of the idiotic sheeple, do we start to regulate it?
If we do, and those said idiotic sheeple moves on to the next junk news/information platform, do we continue the with the nanny state lock-down?
Wouldn't it be better to spend the effort looking at why the sheeple are not using the mainstream reputable news sources instead of these 2 bit garage startups... oh wait, hahaha, mainstream reputable news sources... hahaha, that's gold! Nevermind... bring on the nanny state.