"In 2015 few people, including Trump, believed that he could be elected President. A team within Facebook spotted an opportunity & worked with the Trump team on an advertising strategy & then targeting political messages at very specific groups of people. They strengthened support from some & discouraged others from voting. For Facebook, what mattered was growing the clicks. The impact on the rest of the world was something else"
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/technology/clicks-at-any-price-the-corruption-of-facebook/

#Facebook #Zuckerberg #trump #uspol

"In 2015 few people, including Trump, believed that he could be elected President. A team within Facebook spotted an opportunity & worked with the Trump team on an advertising strategy & then targeting political messages at very specific groups of people. They strengthened support from some & discouraged others from voting. For Facebook, what mattered was growing the clicks. The impact on the rest of the world was something else"
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/technology/clicks-at-any-price-the-corruption-of-facebook/

#Facebook #Zuckerberg #trump #uspol

"Friendship books" were the #Facebook of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834 #FriendshipDay

@QasimRashid And a reminder to NEVER use #Meta apps like #Facebook and #Instagram. They are NOT your friends.