Facebook again: "Forget Russian Trolls. Facebook's Own Staff Helped Win The Election,"
by Daniel Kreiss, Associate Professor in the School of Media and
Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and
Shannon McGregor, an Assistant Professor in the Department of
Communication at The University of Utah, Buzzfeed, October
4, 2017.
"Facebook, Google, and Twitter all directly advised campaigns on
how to influence voters — and the help may have been decisive."
I have another big problem with Facebook, their feeding
everyone's personal information to the National Security Agency. I
too have "nothing to hide," I suppose, but I have a principled
objection to that policy nonetheless. I almost never go there, and
I have never had a Facebook account. Yay me! :-)
Past messages about Facebook:
sent
12/2/16 "Trump’s Trouble with the Truth" + (Re: "The Fake News
About Fake News")
sent
9/15/2017 don't miss: major important articles from all over, many
topics, collected by the Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center
on Media, Politics, and Public Policy--contains links to
several significant articles on the topic of personally oriented
false or somewhat false "news" on Facebook, including one from
PCWorld.
sent
9/19/16 sick [n.b. It looks to me now as though a
wealthy neoconservative
might have had a hand in Facebook's discrimination against
Palestine. Do recall, by the way, that Hillary Clinton was a big
part of that discrimination against Palestine, not necessarily on
Facebook directly.--LS October 8, 2017]
But the
feature article of three days ago from Buzzfeed about
Facebook staff helping with political advertising is not about
discrimination against Palestine, not entirely anyway, not
directly. One can think about relationships, however, certainly.
love to you and your family,
Larry
