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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @08:37PM (6 children)
Ok this is getting pretty sad at this point. Look the guy won. As someone 2 weeks after Obama told me 'get over it'.
The DNC ran a bad candidate. The media picked one they thought she could win against.
I knew she was done when when Bill Maher was begin shown by Scott Adams what here campaign was doing and he put his head down and he goes 'oh god its that bad'.
I personally said there was one man that could make me vote for her was Donald Trump. Well she doubled down on insulting people. At that point I picked the one who at least blew smoke up my ass...
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:18PM (2 children)
You made me go and read the actual article, and I can safely say you are taking an incorrect track. Not a single mention of Trump, not a single mention of stealing the election, just a focus on how social media was used to create chaos in the US. While I do not believe any of it can be called a crime I do see it as something that needs to be discussed. Trying to play it off as crying about the election is disingenuous and shows how sensitive the winners are.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:42PM (1 child)
The mainstream media too!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @03:24PM
Indeed. What's worse is that the reason that the media is failing is because they're pushing faux-left ideology. After reading WSWS for a while, I go back to WaPo or similar, and it's like a wasteland. I don't care about the things WaPo is reporting. They're all distractions. It's all bullshit about waaah waaah Trump won and sucking Zuckerfuck's cock by providing zero information to readers about Failbook alternatives. The reporters have no spine and offer no analysis. Just yet another article that's telling me why I should be blinded by outrage.
Yeah, Trump won. What are we going to do about it? All the press has to offer is impotent rage.
(Score: 1) by bobthecimmerian on Sunday January 21 2018, @11:00PM (2 children)
With the amount of smoke this guy blew, there are Chinese cities with clearer air than DC.
I understand hating Hillary. I do. I hate her myself. But the Republicans found their only possible candidate that made Hillary look like a great choice... and he still got into office. How's that 30 day plan to defeat ISIS working out? Explain how the master of the art of the deal managed to get nothing of his legislative agenda passed all year last year except for a big tax cut he funded by growing the deficit - the exact thing he and his team blasted Obama for doing. And his dealmaking tanked again with the government shutdown. The guy who blasted Obama for golfing took eleven trips to Mar-a-lago already. That's what we got.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 22 2018, @03:07PM (1 child)
(Score: 1) by bobthecimmerian on Monday January 22 2018, @06:07PM
His legislative progress is the tax bill. Everything else was actions he either had nothing to do with (the economy was growing well before he was elected) or that he could do on his own (executive orders). Again, master "art of the deal" couldn't make any deals except the one that inflated the budget deficit.