Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by AnotherGoodName on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:56PM
(#23656954)
Really? Because there's a lot of talk that the tech companies were (partly) the reason Trump was elected. How does that fit in?
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by AnimalMuppet on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:29PM
(#23657270)
That means they messed up, not that they don't lean left.
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by syshum on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:55PM
(#23658316)
My comment specifically states Post-2016. Trump was elected in 2016 and as a result of this the Tech Companies "woke" up to become political entities instead of platforms, many many tech executives were filmed/recorded publicly saying would would do anything in their power to avoid "another 2016"
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by krapp on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:18PM
(#23658447)
>many many tech executives were filmed/recorded publicly saying would would do anything in their power to avoid "another 2016"
Wow, "many many?" Like not one, not even many, but many squared by even more many? That's a lot.
And each of them of was filmed and recorded individually making the same statement too. That's shocking.
I don't suppose you could point us to the mountain of video and audio evidence implied by this comment, could you?
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by coffeeling on Saturday June 27, 2020 @12:22PM
(#23662724)
AFAIK that's one Project Veritas video dealing with Google.
Re:Facebook announces policy changes ahead of 2020 elections
by EdSharkey on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:43PM
(#23657884)
Oh, it fits simply:
* greed: there's buckets of money to be made during election season selling voter info and ads to campaigns
* hubris: they never thought she'd lose, she was a terrible candidate (just like Biden this time!)