The problem is not a lack of transparency, because being “transparent” doesn’t actually matter. The only thing revealed by this transparency is that social media companies do not give a fuck about this.

Pretty much sums it up. Toxic social media platforms which rely solely on advertising are destroying society to make a couple people more money. Nobody seems to care.

This is interesting but has been happening for an entire decade now. I wish they’d stop acting like it’s new.

The 2016 U.S. election was affected by foreign facebook activity. Specifically, a lot from from Macedonia.

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