Re:Political Reality: Buy Ads on Facebook or Risk Losing the...
by liftbigweights on Sunday November 04, 2018 @10:00AM
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> Is Facebook just a fancy machine for auctioning off the electorate to the highest bidder?
Yes. Just like TV, radio or newspapers are. Who decided elections in the past? TV, radio and newspapers/journalists. Today, those old platforms still matter but social media is muscling out its own "sphere of influence".
> Should we think of as the means of modern slavery?
Yes. Just like TV, radio or newspapers are. Who decided elections in the past? TV, radio and newspapers/journalists. Today, those old platforms still matter but social media is muscling out its own "sphere of influence".
> Should we think of as the means of modern slavery?
Modern slavery started long before facebook.