This is what many don't understand, or don't want to understand, this is why some big players are pissed at Facebook, very very pissed.
She was supposed to win, they had to help her win.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2...
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/19070
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/15092
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From:[email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 2016-01-02 22:07 Subject: RE: Happy New Year
I am thrilled at the progress Hillary is making.
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2015 was challenging, but we ended in a good place thanks to your help and support.
Look forward to working with you to elect the first woman President of the United States.
Have a great New Year.
-John
I was hoping that when they started realizing the potential, they'd feel threatened and require it to cease working that way. Instead they all run PR campaigns on social media, and they probably collect data on their voters too if they can. It's just too disgusting to bear. Not just the US either, this is happening all across Europe.
Senator Grassley also said yesterday at the very end of the Zuckerberg hearing that he hopes someone with Zuck's influence and other such platforms would do something to "reduce the cynicism people have towards Congress."
That sounded pretty scary. I get that the mainstream media (and more recently Facebook propaganda, but this is definitely a much older issue) is partly to blame for polarizing America, but asking companies to actively try to influence how people think about their governments sounds like the wrong direction to take to me. I also don't think it's any better than say Fox News trying to polarize people.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/facebook-social-me...