Who didn't see this coming?
From Business Insider:
Facebook will now require Pages with large followers as well as political ads to be authorized
The company will now require Pages with large numbers of followers to be authorized and will require the same of political ads on its site and Instagram. The new requirements are aimed at increasing transparency and accountability and preventing election interference, Rob Goldman, Facebook's vice president of ads, and Alex Himel, its vice president of local and Pages, said in a blog post on the company's site.
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"These steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system," Zuckerberg wrote. "But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads."
FFS.
I'm too pissed/tired/demoralized to offer any further commentary. Just wanted to post this in case others hadn't yet seen it.
Comments
Dupes.
Anyone who is still peddling the "Russia, Russia, Russia" narrative should be prohibited from becoming self appointed arbiters of what is fake and what is real.
Period.
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
I made the mistake of reading some of the comments.
I'm appalled by how many of them are cheering this development. They're actually arguing that censorship is necessary and good.
I swear, we went to sleep and woke up in 1936.
SMFH.
1936 and 1984
Yes, it is that bad.
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Wanna bet they were hired, and waiting to earn their money?
Tons of paid trolls out there...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
DIPSHITS is more like it!
DIPSHITS is more like it!
More like: "Anyone who is still peddling the "Russia, Russia, Russia" narrative should be prohibited from all publication of any kind. Period."
There's no right to propagate stupidity or lies, and no Constitution or Law has the power to establish one!
"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar
"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides
Yes, certainly
we must have the fox guarding the hen house authorize the chickens. One can only hope FB, Youtube, Google and Twitter all die.
FB has been secretly deleting Zuckerberg's emails on Messenger "in order to protect his privacy".
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-admits-to-secretly-deleting-messag...
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Have you read Taibbi's piece on FB?
It's an incredibly comprehensive piecing-together of the insane dystopia of this whole thing in so many directions.
Must-read (don't have the time or I'd dedicate an essay just to it):
Can We Be Saved From Facebook?
The social media giant has swallowed up the free press, become an unstoppable private spying operation and undermined democracy. Is it too late to stop it?
As usual Snowden nailed it too:
Taibbi goes into that and so much more. The guy's smoking hot lately.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Lately.
Taibbi, IMHO, has always been smoking hot. I'm shocked, in a way, that he's still allowed to speak in the mainstream.
Thanks, MFQ, for the tip on his latest. I'm off to read it now.
It's much worse than I imagined.
Taibbi pulls no punches and reveal a fully developed instrument of information extraction and manipulation that leaves anything Orwell might have imagined far behind. I do not see how this country, or the world, will ever regain the possibility of an informed electorate chosing its leaders democratically. The level of personal data collection and manipulation is already chilling in the extreme.
How can a public that has lost its mind and its independence in this way ever hope to find it again?
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Admittedly after reading only a part of Taibbi's "book" on FB
came lots of info:
Ain't that the truth? Hence the reason to listen to all sides of an argument, even (gasp) the NYT.