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Headline is slightly misleading. FB isn’t hiring people specifically to do this; they have a program that pays “content creators”, and these people fall under that label.
Headline is misleading. But the reality is that Facebook knows who these people are and knows they shouldn’t be posting content on political groups all the way across the world.
And doesn’t care.
And doesn’t care.
And actively encourages them by paying them. Because they boost engagement and bring in more ad views.
Unfortunately, one of the primary reasons disinformation spreads so readily is that authoritative sources are beholden to corporatized interests. e.g. the end-users have only the choice of which lies they prefer to listen to, while real truth is virtually nowhere to be found, at least in the sense that it is not among those messages being blasted out at people.
Hrm, I suppose this could even be said to be a wider sense of the concept of “the Algorithm” (moar profits=good), even in the news article creation sense rather than the more typical news aggregation/social media meaning. In the latter, existing articles are selected in such a way as to maximize advertising sales, whereas in the former… pretty much identically the same, except a few things (notably titles) can be changed to better sell the content.
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Make the fine so gobsmacking that it hurts them enough to the point where they seriously ponder wether they’ll ever recover from that.
Make the fine 60% of their annual global revenue. And enforce it to the fullest the laws allows. Make examples of them.
Make the corporation, the moral entity, understand that allowing such practices will result in the moral equivalent of getting close to being mortally wounded when caught, or will be if they get hit again.
This is how they will stop interfering.
Otherwise, a “10 million settlement” merely becomes the operating cost of doing “business”.
Why? There’s no crime here.
Why are there rarely counter-campaigns for all of these? Passivity of governments towards this is so weird. They occasionally mention banning social media and at the end just do nothing. Why not promote their views too.
The state and these governments serve the wealthy. Who manipulate the media against the people. Why would the states go against the people they serve. Whom to be clear when I say the people they serve I don’t mean the people. I’m speaking about the wealthy.
But currently establishment parties are losing ground to others (often right wing) so you‘d think they‘d come up with something, not directly to serve the people but to protect themselves. But they can’t and it’s likely because they don’t stand for anything other than status quo. Can’t survive in information age when you don’t have any message.
Made me think of the quote I encountered this morning:
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
– Bertrand Russell
Yep, if resources were unlimited. Hording them would harm no one. But they aren’t. For one person to have more, multiple people must have their liberties imposed upon by having less. The wealthy are by their very nature a violation of liberty. Not an expression of it.
There probably are information campaigns. But disinformation has a massive advantage because it doesn’t need facts, you just need catchy slogans with no basis in reality. They spread much more easily.
Plenty of catchy slogans to be made based on reality. Problem with majority of establishment parties is lack of motivation, they stand for nothing.
This is true but also you could simply do an opposing disinformation campaign.
who’s gonna ‘out spend’ facebook for exposure on facebook to counter ‘programming’ that facebook themselves is funding so they can sell more ads that target the morons that are buying into said programming?
Time to move the national debt to exclusively Alberta banks.
