As you know, Facebook has been in the spotlight
lately for selling influence to whoever’ll pay for it, which—in addition to
crappy ads cluttering up your feed—includes allowing bad actors like Cambridge
Analytica, the GOP and Vladimir Putin to screw with our political system.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a
slap-on-the-sincere-face-instead-of-a-smirk-and-suit-instead-of-a-white-tee-shirt
apology tour of both the US Congress and the EU’s Parliament. He’s told us he
doesn’t understand how this happened,
and assured us that it won’t ever happen again.
I’m not entirely reassured, however.
Nonetheless, I thought this was an interesting ad
placement in their disinformation campaign.
I mean, I just wonder how many Metro riders are
convinced by this sort of thing?
Know what also isn't your friend? Facebook.
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