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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by worker767424 on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:27PM (#25737391)
Cambridge Analytica happened because of an API and users who will click anything to learn if they're a Samantha or a Carrie.
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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by Nextgrid on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:18PM (#25738260)
Does it mean we should keep technology backwards because a stupid minority will misuse it? In this case should we also ban cash machines, since idiots may withdraw all their cash & throw it in the wind?
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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by worker767424 on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:07PM (#25740229)
> stupid minority

It's a stupid majority.

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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by fsflover on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:39PM (#25737636)
No, it's not because of an API, it's because of the monopoly of Facebook. Without the monopoly they would value security of their users and would be afraid to loose them.
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Re:Facebook Admits It Was Used to Incite Violence in Myanmar... by rodgerd on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:11PM (#25740282)
Cambridge Analytica happened because the same folks who fund Steve Bannon and Parler wanted it to happen.
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