“Facebook lied to you” – Kanye West, 2016

A reminder of this interesting speech from Kanye pre-election, before he disappeared from public discourse after getting hospitalized. With the new revelations surrounding Facebook, maybe he wasn’t just blowing smoke. It’s a new world, Hillary Clinton. h/t ver0egiusto

Facebook: Six Degrees of Giant Squid

by Raúl Ilargi Meijer Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) German artist, philosopher, composer, mystic Cosmic Tree  All of a sudden, politicians in the EU, UK, and USA all want to talk to Mark Zuckerberg. That’s a bad enough sign all by itself. It …

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Using Facebook Data 2012 vs 2016: When Obama did it, it was a game-changer, transformative, the forefront of campaign technology; When Trump did it, it was abuse, psychological warfare, exploitation, a major data breach, data harvesting.

Source+ Key Quote I’ll add some corroborating links from the 2012 Obama-era just incase those go down. For current news, just see current news. Archived: Top left ——— adweek Top right ——- The Guardian Bottom left —- MIT Technology Review Bottom right — TIME …

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Then Why Is Anyone STILL on Facebook?

Wolf Richter wolfstreet.com, www.amazon.com/author/wolfrichter Where’s the panicked rush to “delete” accounts? Things at Facebook came to a head, following the disclosure that personal data from 50 million of its users had been given to a sordid outfit in the UK, …

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Facebook/Google Pulling Crypto Ads

by Dave Given FB and Google are the two 900-pound gorillas in the ad space, this is probably a bad thing for the “google trends” buy bitcoin charts.  They’re already in a downtrend, and this likely won’t help. https://wolfstreet.com/2018/03/14/google-joins-facebook-in-cryptocurrency-crackdown/ Daily …

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Confirmed: Facebook’s Recent Algorithm Change Is Crushing Conservative Sites, Boosting Liberals

via westernjournal: Facebook’s much-publicized demotion of publishers’ content in users’ news feeds has negatively impacted conservative-leaning publishers significantly more than liberal-leaning outlets, an analysis by The Western Journal has revealed. Liberal publishers have gained about 2 percent more web traffic from …

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Facebook engagement drops 24%

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tYdj6_T_tM It was less than a month ago that I wrote about a trend that should be very worrying for Facebook. Namely, that users were spending less time on the platform. According to Nielsen numbers through November of last year, …

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This is the beginning of the end of the dominance of Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., as they'll probably still be around in 10 years time, but in a much diminished capacity.

by MagicalMysteryRadio It won’t happen overnight, as people’s habits take time to change, but the recent purge of alternative voices on all of these platforms will soon backfire. Very powerful, moneyed interests saw the danger an open internet represented, so …

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