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Re:If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help... by 659087 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @01:42PM (#15208145)
I'll never understand what makes people take the focus-grouped, carefully worded speeches and statements of CEOs and politicians at face value, and then label those CEOs/politicians "good people" or "nice guys" based on that. It's obvious that critical thinking skills are severely lacking across most of society.

It's the equivalent of believing a company is "run by comedians" because their marketing team injected some dull humor into an ad that played on TV, or believing an oil company is "environmentally friendly" because they published a picture of someone wearing their logo planting a tree.

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Re:If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help... by fweespeech on Saturday September 09, 2017 @03:09PM (#15208644)
It is quite scary that it works, even on people I'd normally expect to be more discerning.

The flip side of that is they can't really hide when they fuck up.

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Re:If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help... by 659087 on Saturday September 09, 2017 @04:54PM (#15209107)
> The flip side of that is they can't really hide when they fuck up.

That's what they employ social media "reputation management" teams for.

You'll notice this entire thread we're commenting on was quietly deleted from the main post listing on HN after it started rising up the front page. Though, I'm guessing that was more HN mods doing someone a favor (or protecting the guy they want to see become president) than full-on reddit-style reputation management, where the entire thread is suddenly full of people who love whoever got caught with their pants down.

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Re:If Mark Zuckerberg runs for president, will Facebook help... by sctb on Sunday September 10, 2017 @11:10AM (#15212506)
Moderators didn't touch this post. Its rank was affected by user flags and the overheated-discussion detector.
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