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Time For a Better Platform Than Faceschnook

 "Why would Meta do this? The company seems to understand that Trump’s attacks undermine democracy and can destabilize the country."

Because Mark Zuckerberg has made it abundantly clear for years that he believes nothing whatsoever should stand in the way of monetizing the users of Facebook for advertising purposes. He does not believe in privacy. In 2010, he said the idea of privacy is no longer a social norm, and that we no longer have an expectation of privacy. That was to justify a change of Facebook's privacy settings that dramatically increased the amount of personal information exposed to the world on Facebook. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, an online civil liberties group, said at the time that "...the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data."
Facebook has not changed since then. There has been one scandal after another stemming directly from this cavalier approach to your privacy. Each time, Facebook makes the most minimal changes possible to tamp down the bad PR, and often reverts to prior behavior once the TV cameras have wandered on to the next new thing.
Why? Because your personal information is Facebook's product. Ostensibly, it looks like their purpose is to allow you to keep up with your friends and family over time, even if you move away and don't see each other any more. But in reality, the product Facebook produces is you. What you do on Facebook is sliced and diced in a thousand different ways and sold to advertisers for them to engage in microtargeting and, often, finding marks for scams. Facebook doesn't care. It is all money, either way. Even the Cambridge Analytica scandal, for which Facebook settled for $5 billion so that Zuckerberg would not be named, happened while the value of the company increased 25%. In that environment, $5 billion is chump change, just the cost of doing business, only 4% of their profit in a single year.
Same with Trump. He drives followers to the platform, and more so the more insane he gets. Those users are as monetizable as any others, perhaps more so as they are given to buying gold coins and survival buckets and all manner of other things to tide them over through the racial apocalypse.
Facebook found it extremely difficult to take down posts by Trump and his acolytes that were flat out lies. But it has no difficulty taking down posts that point out uncomfortable truths that Facebook would really rather you not know.
So lets see if they take this one down.
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  • Paul Camp
    I keep thinking I should just dump Facebook like my friend Amy did. At the end of the day, it is Zuckerberg's evil empire. But they do know what they are up to. They are well aware how very difficult it is to cut ties with long time friends. You will n… 
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