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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by spyder on Friday January 26, 2018 @10:23AM (#16239803)
> He can pay for media campaigns to support his positions and he can exert influence financially over media networks, but he can't control the masses on social media social media which thwart his vision.

Uh.. he can pay for media campaigns on Facebook too, just like many others are doing it with the "fake news".

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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by ethbro on Friday January 26, 2018 @03:05PM (#16242427)
I'd guess his position is more that nobody can buy or control changes to Facebook's ranking system, other than Facebook.

Which, even if Facebook decides to forgo profits in favor of "good", doesn't preclude a government passing a law that "All social media sites much prefer regime news stories over anything else."

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