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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 05:22 PM Oct 2017

Is Facebook Spinning Out of Control?


October 10, 2017 at 10:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Financial Times: “Like a shamed company announcing a product recall, Facebook bought full-page adverts in The New York Times and The Washington Post last week in an attempt to shore up its reputation. It was not suspending the social network that has become a ubiquitous news source and multibillion-dollar ad machine. But Russia’s weaponisation of Facebook to influence last year’s US election has raised grave questions about whether Mark Zuckerberg’s product is spinning out of control.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2017/10/10/facebook-spinning-control/
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Is Facebook Spinning Out of Control? (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2017 OP
"Has....spun" more like it. cat out of the bag. NRaleighLiberal Oct 2017 #1
Boy am I glad I never signed up for that mess. Best_man23 Oct 2017 #2
Yes, completely out of control thebluedems Oct 2017 #3
Was it ever "in control?"... Wounded Bear Oct 2017 #4

Best_man23

(4,898 posts)
2. Boy am I glad I never signed up for that mess.
Tue Oct 10, 2017, 09:31 PM
Oct 2017

I've told more than one person to stop getting their news from FB.

thebluedems

(8 posts)
3. Yes, completely out of control
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 01:09 PM
Oct 2017

In an interview this morning that aired on MSNBC, Sandberg said that Facebook would allow Russian Fake News on Facebook - she did not mince words.

http://www.caelusgreenroom.com/2017/10/02/facebook-publish-fake-news/



Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
4. Was it ever "in control?"...
Thu Oct 12, 2017, 01:12 PM
Oct 2017

I use it for small social networking, not for news. Any "news" I read there I take with a large grain of salt.

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