Facebook to Spend Actual Money to Prevent Abuse

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The Zuck says that he will actually make sure Facebook is no longer used by foreign governments to meddle in our politics, even if they have to spend money to do it.


"I am dead serious about this," Zuckerberg said on a conference call with analysts. He said Facebook will hire an additional 10,000 people to its security teams to prevent abuse on its platform, though not all of them will be full-time employees. The move, he said, will impact the company's profitability. "I wanted our investors to hear that directly from me."

"I've expressed how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust," Zuckerberg continued. "What they did is wrong and we are not going to stand for it."
 
Facebook is a joke. It's a place for online social interaction. If people are putting that much clout into Facebook and the information that is contained in it, that's on them. Zuck is one of those hypocritical liberal douchebags that will use Facebook for his messages, not those that he disagrees with.

Don't use Facebook for political information. Bam, done. Do your own damn thinking...
 
Well, the plan sounds good. However, I'm thinking that it could be self-saving PR, maybe an attempt to ward of closer investigation of Facebook. Zuckerberg claims to be very upset over somebody engaging in the type conduct that Facebook partakes in, itself? How will this new 10,000 employee group affect manipulative marketing that comes from with in the USA - or is it only to target foreign manipulation?


I'm an ex-Facebook exec: don't believe what they tell you about ads

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Just as Mark Zuckerberg was being disingenuous (to put it mildly) when, in the wake of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, he expressed doubt that Facebook could have flipped the presidential election.

Facebook deploys a political advertising sales team, specialized by political party, and charged with convincing deep-pocketed politicians that they do have the kind of influence needed to alter the outcome of elections.

I was at Facebook in 2012, during the previous presidential race. The fact that Facebook could easily throw the election by selectively showing a Get Out the Vote reminder in certain counties of a swing state, for example, was a running joke.

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Without seeing the leaked documents, which were reportedly based around a pitch Facebook made to a bank, it is impossible to know precisely what the platform was offering advertisers. There’s nothing in the trade I know of that targets ads at emotions. But Facebook has and does offer “psychometric”-type targeting, where the goal is to define a subset of the marketing audience that an advertiser thinks is particularly susceptible to their message.

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Can Zuck make sure that our leaders & officials no longer do shady business deals with foreign governments in an attempt to launder money through charitable foundations either? Or does that not fit his agenda?
 
So he wants the Democrats to pay Facebook directly for political propaganda instead of laundering the money through the Russians first?
 
"I've expressed how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust,"

Yeah...that's the job of the President.
 
1_rick said:
I bet he wouldn't have cared had Hillary won.
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If Hillary had won, there wouldn't be a discussion on Russian hacking. Almost a year later people are STILL trying to find a reason on why she lost. Its been staring them in the face the whole time. Because she is an awful candidate that comes from a party that is in shambles. Denial is a powerful emotion.
 
But to all the corporations please continue abusing the "platform" aka website and please plaster ads all over the Fn place. thanks
 
Krenum said:
Can Zuck make sure that our leaders & officials no longer do shady business deals with foreign governments in an attempt to launder money through charitable foundations either? Or does that not fit his agenda?
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How would Zuck have any control over Trump's real estate deals?
 
I think trying to do a good job to keep false foreign or even just false entities from doing business with facebook will go a long way to keep it from becoming the next MySpace. If they don't do this now and do get it right then they will be the place where conversations don't happen.

Myspace tried to be foot loose and fancy free, then it turned into a music site.. I don't even know if anyone has the domain registered any more and I don't are enough to check.
 
Krenum said:
If Hillary had won, there wouldn't be a discussion on Russian hacking. Almost a year later people are STILL trying to find a reason on why she lost. Its been staring them in the face the whole time. Because she is an awful candidate that comes from a party that is in shambles. Denial is a powerful emotion.
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I agree that Hillary lost because she was a shitty candidate who will never deserve to be president, and likely committed a few crimes herself. However, Russia's cyber geopolitical propaganda arm is much bigger than that and goes back to at least 2013. In the U.S., Russia's been trying to incite violence by aggravating public divides, and they have partially succeeded. I'd personally like to find out if any of the violent protesters or terrorist acts, such as the person who shot up planned parenthood or the GOP baseball game, belonged to any of the clickbait facebook groups, twitter posters, or subreddits that were ran by Russian agents because they're trying to stir hate in the public and radicalize democracy. It's unfortunate that lobbying corruption, social media, and non-investigative journalism enable us all to be easily influenced. Regardless of why these investigations have started, it is fortunate that were are thoroughly investigating them now with the participation of the companies involved.
 
Translation: FB will now meddle in politics to suit their own viewpoints as driven by a narcissistic asshole.
 
lol. Right he is dead serious now. Most of these tech clowns were hoping Hilarry the snake was going to win. It would have been a fucking disaster.
 
I'm all for the government getting involved to stop facebook and Twitter from being influenced by foreign government, if it also means that these companies can't use their near monopoly/oligopoly status to block opinions they don't like. It scares me that Twitter can manipulate and block a hashtag simply because they don't like it:

https://www.google.com/amp/nypost.c...ocking-wikileaks-links-in-dnc-email-hack/amp/

And recently:

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.dail...emails-tweets-in-last-two-months-of-campaign/
 
This has been going on for decades its just more easily recognized now. Also in terms of influencing elections...why is it wrong when Russia does it but right when we do it?
 
How about you spend money to vet ads and get rid of the ones that fire off the fake "infected device" and other crap that you seem to not mind since the ads are paid for.
 
He honestly believes Facebook had any influence in this past election? LOL! :D He clearly is one of those people who ignore the fly over country.
 
Yeah, why would advertising have an effect on peoples' choices? LOL! What a stupid industry.

Another thread that will get locked by page 3.
 
kju1 said:
This has been going on for decades its just more easily recognized now. Also in terms of influencing elections...why is it wrong when Russia does it but right when we do it?
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Links to the ads the US government has bought, pretending to be a member of another country in order to promote a political candidate?

I only ask because you make a declarative statement that we have done it, and as much as I've seen the news (i.e.: US news while saying "We're the US news") propagandizing one candidate over another, I don't recall ever hearing that the US was buying ads pretending to be a Swedish political group and posting said ads in broken Finnish promoting Swexit.

Maybe they have, do you have a link?
 
Drakensoul said:
Links to the ads the US government has bought, pretending to be a member of another country in order to promote a political candidate?

I only ask because you make a declarative statement that we have done it, and as much as I've seen the news (i.e.: US news while saying "We're the US news") propagandizing one candidate over another, I don't recall ever hearing that the US was buying ads pretending to be a Swedish political group and posting said ads in broken Finnish promoting Swexit.

Maybe they have, do you have a link?
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I said interfering in an election. Not buying ads. There is a very long history of us interfering in other countries elections.

One example of that was our intervention in Serbia, Yugoslavia in the 2000 election there. Slobodan Milosevic was running for re-election, and we didn't want him to stay in power there due to his tendency, you know, to disrupts the Balkans and his human rights violations.

So we intervened in various ways for the opposition candidate, Vojislav Kostunica. And we gave funding to the opposition, and we gave them training and campaigning aide. And according to my estimate, that assistance was crucial in enabling the opposition to win.
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http://www.npr.org/2016/12/22/506625913/database-tracks-history-of-u-s-meddling-in-foreign-elections

One recent example: Bolivia - we directed our Ambassador to effectively campaign for our preferred candidate to win. Threatening to withdraw our aid if they lost.

Hell even "Billary" suggested we rig the Palestinian election http://theweek.com/speedreads/65832...on-appears-suggest-rigging-palestine-election

You can also count our toppling of other governments (whether you think it right or wrong) as interference as well...
 
Doesn't Russia have a right to Free Speech here in the USA?

I still don't get why people A) think political ads work B) why it's wrong for some entity to buy them C) they actually effected the election.
 
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