Posted on 11/15/2018 10:06:57 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Let's take every opportunity to remind them it was Russian ads on Facebook that cost Hillary the White House and it was Jeff Zuckerberg who told Democrats it was a 'cray idea' that the Russian ads influence the election.
The idea that Facebook’s fake news problem could have influenced the result of the 2016 presidential elections is a “crazy idea,” the social network’s co-founder and chief executive said Thursday.
Mark Zuckerberg denies that fake news on Facebook influenced the elections
Reeling? Maybe they mean FB is reeling in new users. Because the stock is not appreciably down from where it was before the NYT report came out.
Somehow, these rats are planning to implicate Trump here.
Bull hockey. We knew Soros was a schmuck when FB was a twinkle in Suckerbird’s eye.
Never forget that Zuckerberg is actually Soros version 2.0
We can capitalize on this by reminding them Zuckerberg originally laughed off any claims Russian Facebook ads influenced the election in anyway.
That made them even angrier at the time and Facebook quickly 'conceded' Facebook was wrong to accept money for the Russian ads.
Too little too late. Democrats still blame Facebook and Democrats want revenge through regulations.
Russian firm tied to pro-Kremlin propaganda advertised on Facebook during election
Just nationalize it and hand it over to the Bureau of Weights and Measures since the left love communism so much.
I have always been suspicious of Facebook, and neve joined.
I hate to admit it, but I am sorry it took so long for users to see exactly what this horrid, manipulator was.
Democrats are now the ones screaming for regulations imposed on Facebook.
It wasn’t Russian ads that influenced me.
And I am not alone.
Democrats believe the Russian Facebook ads influenced the election and they want revenge.
This is Brer Rabbit begging not to be thrown into the briar patch.
The FB goal all along is justifying and expanding the censorship of conservatives. So NYT shows up and scolds them for allowing “Russian fake news”. FB reluctantly agrees and cooperates with lawmakers who INSIST they “clean up their act”.
FB goes full flamethrower on conservative nationalists with the blessings of the NYT crowd and the congress.
“don’t throw me into that briar patch!”
That’s because some people are influence by ads \
Pay attention and research and then vote.
Democrats aren't laughing. Democrats believe it:
As computer guys are wont to say, if it’s free, YOU are the commodity.
Did they think Fakebook was doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, or would be satisfied with advertising money when they have a humongous chunk of big date to sort through and sell?
Dems will legislate to get full control of FB, then they will be appeased.
Facebook has suspended a Boston-based analytics firm as the company probes the types of data the firm harvested from the Facebook platform and whether Crimson Hexagon's contracts with the U.S. government...... and its nonprofit tied to Russia's government...... violate company policies.
Representatives for Facebook told the WSJ that the company was previously unaware of some of the contracts held by the firm. Crimson Hexagon, advertises itself as the holder of more than one trillion social media posts scraped from Facebook.........and other social media sites.
“Facebook has a responsibility to help protect people’s information, which is one of the reasons why we have tightened” access to users' personal information, Facebook's VP for partnerships Ime Archibong told the Journal. He added that Facebook allows firms like Crimson Hexagon to produce “anonymized insights for business purposes.” A separate spokesman for the company told the Journal that “based on our investigation to date, Crimson Hexagon did not obtain any Facebook or Instagram information inappropriately.”
Crimson Hexagon's chief technology officer Chris Bingham told the Journal that his company does not collect private information, adding that they are “working together to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.” The two companies plan to meet in the upcoming days.
U.S. government agencies paid Crimson Hexagon more than $800,000 for 22 separate contracts in the past four years, according to the Journal. The company has also worked with companies based in foreign countries including Russia and Turkey, the Journal reported.
Facebook responded to a firestorm of criticism earlier this year when it was revealed that another firm, Cambridge Analytica, had obtained the personal information of tens of millions of users without their knowledge or consent. The firm worked with the Trump campaign during the 2016 election, though it says it did not use the collected data during that time.
BINGO
It’s pretty obvious at the point that anything that anyone does or fails to do that might help Republicans, at least Trump-supporting ones, win an election is at least unethical and immoral if not flat out illegal, and anything that anyone does or fails to do that might help a Democrat win an election is by definition ethical, moral and completely legal, regardless of what relevant laws might say.
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