That’s 1 in 3 Americans, children included.
I say we shut the POS down.
Any company that makes a significant portion of its revenue through advertising has to be looked at with a jaundiced eye. We already know Facebook, Twitter, and Google were complicit by looking the other way as Russia meddled in our elections. They’ve clearly shown they cannot be trusted and have no interest in safeguarding our democracy. Regulations are a-coming and the stricter, the better.
Even really basic regulations like disclosure would have caught a bunch of this.
Hillary Clinton: 65,853,625 votes
Donald Trump: 62,985,106 votes
Total: 128,838,731 votes
Nice work FaceBook, you potentially let the entirety of the voting population be influeced by illegal foreign bots and advertisements, something they could have very easily blocked and/or alerted their users to.
No wonder Mark Zuckerberg has been on a brand-cleansing tour the past 9 months.
FaceBook should be shut down and Zuckerberg should be investigated for allowing foreign agents to meddle in our elections.
And after the election he called the idea “crazy”. Now, not so much.
BTW does Zuckerberg own any shirts other that gray tee shirts. Just wonderin’.
But hey, it had no effect on the election, right?
There’s one less troll active today, at least around here. Of course he wasn’t very influential during his tenure.
OT: Oh man…
Rod Rosenstein soon to issue a retraction. Or not.
You know, American citizens are pretty savvy, and they decide who to vote for. I don’t think they’d be influenced by ads posted by foreign governments.
Well if you want to look at the glass half full then a little more than half who potentially saw this content voted for Hillary.
As for the “Facebook should be shut down” do you understand that there are people who use Facebook all day, every day? Do you understand that there are people who use Facebook to socialize with their friends spread out across the country. People who like the news articles because their hometown papers suck? People who got woke because of Ferguson?
We’ve survived “yellow journalism” before, we survived no mass communications before, we can and will survive this.
He has gray hoodies, and I say this as someone who lives where he does and lament that he and other frenzied techies have turned this town into hipsterville where gray tees are the uniform.
@tomanjeri Twitter has its HQ here in San Francisco where I live and when I drive by the massive building I give it the finger and cuss loudly. Does that help? But I wouldn’t advocate shutting it down. Think lots of people jobless and the tax base shrinking
The beauty of Cater Page going on Chris Hayes’ show is that he’ll look stupid and guilty again. This seriously one dude who has never ever heard of Kruger-Dunning. I’m sure Chris will give him all the rope Carter needs.
Twitter has been used during protests, lots and lots of a protests around the world. Along with Facebooks’ live video option.
Yeah… it’s actually incredible. You gotta wonder, has that guy ever had any real legal counsel??
please spell it out for me - I’m not sure who you’re talking about and always seem to miss the banned bridge “members”
I think our wish is that moron himself be banned, but that’s not going to happen.
He and Michael Moore had an interesting exchange on Twitter recently, and it’s just so trumpian Moore had a limited 12-week run, trumpet tweeted sad it closed. After 12 weeks.
How destructive would it have to be to change your mind? Jus curious.
He popped up recently under his traditional handle, “uk_observer,” although he was banned under that a few months back and returned as “brissy” for a while. Always ever-so-subtly (by which I mean obviously AF) pushing the Putinesque pro-Trump line, as if from an objective furriner.