Twitter, facebook, and to a lesser extent youtube have been vehicles for the right wing manipulation of our social spheres.

And I'm complaining each time.

Facebook is becoming the goebbels of information for the people who don't know better.

The ones I've encountered usually allow for a Google signin, and I always opt for that. Not that I'm all THAT comfortable with that option, but just way less comfortable with Facebook.

The mega-web-site-development companies are all promoting their tie-ins with other companies that can furnish "enhanced communications.

- LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft)
- Google (analytics, Youtube, etc.)
- Facebook
- Disqus
- Goes on forever

If you look at the number of off-site calls via a tool like uMatrix (or a browser "inspector&quot you'd be amazed at the 10's or 100's of calls to third-parties that get to participate in analyzing your data and patterns.

It's like thousands of little spies are all condensing your life and filling terabytes of storage about what/who/where/why - all about you.

Back to your question: Many sites don't even take emails directly. They want you to fill in a form and they'll mine every bit of your presence while filling that form.

I know - I do this sometimes.

if it's free, the product is YOU.

...when the evidence was incontrovertible and he couldn't just gee-whiz it away.

Trump will be running every which way but loose.

.... that team Mueller has interviewed.


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/more-than-20-white-house-employees-mueller

... The conspiracy between Trump, Russia, RepubliCONs and the Mercers to influence the Electoral College (successfully). The charge is Conspiracy Against the USA (colloquially called "collusion" ). Manafort is facing it already, of course. The Facebook inquiry brings it to the RepubliCons and others.

This goes beyond the Obstruction of Justice charges that are probably coming.

The is the heart of what has been alleged about Trump-Russia, when combined with the investigation of Deutsche Bank accounts and Cyprus banking accounts.

was blasting facebook and google at Davos.

Looks like he was right.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210147664

For “papers” like the Boston Inquirer and Los Angeles Post (I just made those up) to beat out actual real new journals day after day with the same made up stories. The web pages looked very real. They had bots boosting the links on Twitter and FB to basically control Google.

And there you have it.

KnR