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Have we reached peak social media?

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2018-02-12 14:43:20 from the hit-the-hate-button dept.
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According to The Guardian [theguardian.com] one of world’s biggest advertisers, Unilever, says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’, threatens to take its ad expenses off Facebook, Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".

If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.


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