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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by bko on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:25PM (#30859725)
> It was a tool used to influence elections in the United States

Are you talking about fake Russian accounts buying $100k worth of facebook ads in 2016? That constitutes 0.00625% of total spending (1.6 bn) on the 2016 election. Or are you talking about something else?

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/facebook-sold-100000-ads-fak...

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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by martingoodson on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:57PM (#30860058)
The IRA Russian troll farm had 1000 employees in 2015. They used Facebook as a tool to influence elections in the United States.

This is very well documented https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

And I don’t know why the sister comment about Facebook being used to commit genocide in Myanmar was flagged and killed. This is also well documented by eg the NYT and the UN. It was also admitted by Facebook itself.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/06/technology/myanmar-facebo...

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Re:Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok by tracker1 on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @05:22PM (#30860932)
It swings in every direction. Not just what they allow in terms of ads but what gets suppressed, promoted, shown/reshown. Visibility and not.
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