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stuffmatters

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4. This seems to fall into the "it's not the crime but the coverup" category

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Oct 12, 2017, 05:50 PM

Oct 2017

Absolutely appalling. Facebook is freely destroying evidence and essential data in the case of Facebook's for profit selling of Americans' personal data that allowed Russia(via Cambridge Analaytica) to psychologically target & persuade American voters.

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Facebook takes down data and thousands of posts, obscuring reach of Russian disinformation [View all] Eugene Oct 2017 OP

Also removed evidence it actually happened. nt benld74 Oct 2017 #1

Something happened? eom guillaumeb Oct 2017 #3

down the memory hole disalitervisum Oct 2017 #2

This seems to fall into the "it's not the crime but the coverup" category stuffmatters Oct 2017 #4

It's not a crime until somebody passes a law to make it a crime FakeNoose Oct 2017 #6

Is destroying evidence illegal anymore? BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #5

Backup tape Dan Oct 2017 #7

Kick dalton99a Oct 2017 #8