Facebook – Politics, Privacy, And The World’s Greatest Spying Machine
If you’ve been paying at least slight attention to the news lately (yes, I know this is a stretch for many people today), you may have noticed something about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answering to Congress about the privacy of Facebook’s users.
And just why is this taking place?
Back in 2016, a company called Cambridge Analytica basically used software to access people’s data on Facebook, profile them based on that data, and help send political advertisements their way during the 2016 presidential election. This is in the news because that data was used to help campaign for President Trump. That’s all you really need to know as far as why all of a sudden the media cares about privacy and politics on Facebook.
Had that same exact data been used to help Hillary Clinton, then the story would have never made the news. It’s been widely known that Facebook has been an impromptu arm of the Democratic Party, and frequently conservative voices have been silenced under the blanket label of “hate speech” (i.e. anything that the “rulers” don’t agree with, whether it’s truly “hateful” or not).
Want some proof of Facebook’s loyalty to the Democrats? Check out this listing of 2015-16 political campaign contributions that somebody on Reddit discovered. When you have 995 Facebook employees each giving $200 (or more) to Hillary, and only 23 people giving at least that much to Trump, that’s telling you something right there about how the overwhelming majority of the workers at the company think when it comes to politics. It’s also a major indicator of their agenda and how they censor “hate speech” and “inappropriate” content. Read more…
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