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In reply to the discussion: Quit Facebook and delete the App from your Smartphone. Seriously, delete it. NOW! [View all]Botany
(70,635 posts)12. Facebook also put Trump into the White House
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Zuckerberg is on record as saying "the problems" in 2016 and the elections
was a bad app and security problems but in reality facebook was working hand
and glove with Cambridge Analytica and the Trump Campaign to help "bath"
targeted voters with multiple streams of misinformation.
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The campaign also employed Cambridge Analytica, a data science firm principally owned by Trump backer and Breitbart investor Robert Mercer, to provide useful analysis of data about the American electorate as reported in Wired. The firm sent three staff members to the San Antonio office, including its chief product officer, Matt Oczkowski.
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Hongs boss Brad Parscale had a similar take about the social media platform. In an interview with 60 Minutes, Parscale, the Trump's campaign Digital Director said, I understood early that Facebook was how Donald Trump was going to win. Twitter is how he talked to the people. Facebook was going to be how he won.
Parscale also revealed in the interview that Facebook provided the campaign with their employees, working out of the Project Alamo office, and helped educate the digital team on how to use Facebook ads. And it wasnt just Facebook. According to Parscale, Google employees, and Twitter employees also visited the digital office multiple days a week.
https://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/features/how-facebook-was-harnessed-to-micro-target-voters-and-promote-donald-trump
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Quit Facebook and delete the App from your Smartphone. Seriously, delete it. NOW! [View all]
DetlefK
Dec 2018
OP
It has a culture of deception (such a culture is biologically necessary to amass grotesque wealth)
DemocracyMouse
Dec 2018
#96
I've never had an account. Never used that piece of shit app. Yet, the
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2018
#9
I just got a 9 and it only lets me disable and roll back updates. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Dec 2018
#40
Reading these posts, I consider myself lucky to have been able to easily dump it.
WillowTree
Dec 2018
#51
I highly recommend this app ..its free, it will ask you if you want to allow an app Internet access
wroberts189
Dec 2018
#139
3 Ways to Remove Facebook if It Came Preinstalled on Your Android Phone -- No Root Needed
Celerity
Dec 2018
#151
Extremely important..Facebook lied. It didn't sell info, IT SHARED INFO..WITH OTHERS..
Stuart G
Dec 2018
#3
Copy that. But, my other half joined up last year (?). I keep sending him
sprinkleeninow
Dec 2018
#115
I'm on the 30 day countdown to deletion of account on Putin & Zuckerberg's
workinclasszero
Dec 2018
#15
Or, the focus on FB is pretending that cutting down one tree denies the existence of a forest.
LanternWaste
Dec 2018
#120
No matter what he says, every keystroke you give him is kept, shared and monetized behind your back.
dalton99a
Dec 2018
#50
I'm not naive enough to think that nearly everything to know about me is being collected and shared
elocs
Dec 2018
#58
facebook has ALWAYS been a big data collecting machine...why do you think we get it for free?
samnsara
Dec 2018
#66
Yes, and you also don't have to accept every friend request that comes your way.
GoCubsGo
Dec 2018
#119
I don't agree with that. That's what trump is pushing. Do you support Trump?
rockfordfile
Dec 2018
#113
Can't delete. I have a Samsung. When I get my next phone I'm going to get a brand
SweetieD
Dec 2018
#76
Someone needs to file a clas action suit on behalf of all Facebook users.
Liberty Belle
Dec 2018
#84
everytime you sue your credit card you give your information to corporations
wasupaloopa
Dec 2018
#127
Apparently it's FaceBook that could shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose any supporters.
TeamPooka
Dec 2018
#134
'I don't miss it at all.' There's life after deleting Facebook, some former users say
dalton99a
Dec 2018
#147
I have nothing on it nor do I use it to message or post. No input from me.
lindysalsagal
Dec 2018
#155