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Re:Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other... by badfrog on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @02:05PM (#19321617)
> the main piece of them criticism is that perhaps users shouldn't be trusted with a permission this broad (which had already been fixed 4 years earlier).

Agreed. This broad permission was also widely known well before CA. IMO the only reason the CA story blew up is that lots of people were upset about the 2016 election and wanted somebody to target their anger toward.

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Re:Ask HN: Current and former FB employees, what's the other... by chromecanary on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @09:50PM (#19325200)
Traditional news media gave the election to Hillary. And post-election they found it convenient to blame it all on Facebook.

Facebook certainly isn't influential enough to swing 20 points of an entire US Prez election all on its own (It obviously contribute though)

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