“clamping down on the spread of false information.”
Isn’t the spread of false information a large part of the business model?
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My wife and I quit FB a year or so ago and we’re just fine. In fact, it’s better.
A broken clock is right twice a day. But it’s still a broken clock.
I suspect Hawley is in the group of people convinced Facebook censors conservative voices and so is inclined to view it negatively to begin with.
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I’m sure you’re right on that. Any changes they make which would satisfy him are unlikely to be positive for the rest of us.
If Boing Boing is is going to fault Facebook for unwanted location tracking, maybe you should take a real close look at yourself, and the “Revcontent” service you use for your ads?
The peculiar all-caps Norwegian is terrible, but the reference to “Hordaland” shows things going on that I never agreed to. I’ve also seen ads for beating “Bergen Casinos” which is strange since there are no casinos in Bergen.
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I don’t do Facebook, and I doubt that I ever will. Even so, I’m willing to bet that they have gobs of data on me.
FB is consistently insincere about user privacy violations
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I thought BB’s a blog-roll, not social media? I.e. there is no social network of ‘friends’ and ‘followers’ a la Twitter, Facebook, etc. Did “social media” get expanded to mean “The Internet” again?
Er, I meant this, the BBS. Where I interact. And stuff.
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