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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsZuckerberg called Facebook users dumb fucks for trusting him.
Mark Zuckerberg admittrd in a New Yorker profile that he mocked early Facebook users for trusting him with their personal information, saying "They trust me dumb fucks.
http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks
poboy2
(2,078 posts)Facebook and Cambridge Analytica worked side by side at a Trump campaign office in San Antonio
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210388760
PdxSean
(574 posts)avebury
(10,951 posts)In the Trump campaign wouldn't that be some type of campaign violation? They used millions of users in a way not intended by their users. Plus wouldn't the value of their in kind contribution exceed what is allowed? They were not operating in a PAC.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Yes, and that is why they are being investigated for same.
Devin Nunes Probed by FEC for Possible Campaign-Finance Violations:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210391954
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)He's a little shit with zero ethics who conned millions to make billions. He should be sharing a cell with Shkreli.
PdxSean
(574 posts)Facebook is like a drug to its users. And try as I may, I have yet to convince ONE relative to leave Facebook despite all that has recently been revealed.
eleny
(46,166 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,494 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)I just deleted my facebook account..not that I ever used it..my daughter thought I might like to have one several years ago -
I just deleted it permanently using this info at link...provided by stuartg -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210382724
blake2012
(1,294 posts)PdxSean
(574 posts)Its funny now, but at the time I got grief from people who assumed Id unfriended them. It was like middle school on steroids.
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)NNadir
(33,474 posts)My oldest son, who still lives with us while attending art school, has referred to it as a "cancer," but has kept the page only to remain in contact with some people he's known for whom it's his only way of staying in touch with them, as they have peripatetic lives.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Helping a hostile foreign nation to compromise an election.
We all know what the penalty for Treason is.
cojoel
(953 posts)PdxSean
(574 posts)Oneironaut
(5,486 posts), and your spouse or mom to know. It's basically like taking a bullhorn and yelling your personal information out. It doesn't matter if you set it to "private." The biggest joke ever is that Facebook even gives you privacy options.