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'Reported April 2016
Mark Zuckerberg Throws Shade at Donald Trump During Keynote Speech"
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent roughly five minutes denouncing the policies of presidential hopeful Donald Trump during the opening of this year’s F8 keynote.
“As I look around the world, I’m starting to see people and nations turning inward, against the idea of a connected world and a global community,” Zuckerberg said.”
DID YA GET THAT “GLOBAL” WORD
“I hear fearful voices calling for building walls and distancing people they label as ‘others.’ I hear them calling for blocking free expression, for slowing immigration, for reducing trade, and in some cases even for cutting access to the internet,” he said.
A smoke screen b/c $$ is more important to FB now. You be the judge.
https:// gizmodo.com/mark-zuckerberg-throws-shade-at-donald-trump-during-key-1770534129#_ga=1.30452089.778886705.1458001093
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Also in April 2016
"Facebook Says it Doesn't Try to Influence How People Vote"
"Facebook has declared it will never use its product to influence how people on the platform vote"
https:// gizmodo.com/facebook-says-it-doesnt-try-to-influence-how-people-vot-1771276946?rev=1460755179651
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"Facebook Employees Asked Mark Zuckerberg If They Should Try to Stop a Donald Trump Presidency "
"But what’s exceedingly important about this question being raised---and Zuckerberg’s answer, if there is one—is how Facebook now treats the powerful place it holds in the world.
It’s unprecedented. More than 1.04 billion people use Facebook. It’s where we get our news, share our political views, and interact with politicians. It’s also where those politicians are spending a greater share of their budgets.
And Facebook has no legal responsibility to give an unfiltered view of what’s happening on their network."
“Facebook can promote or block any material that it wants,” UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh told Gizmodo. “Facebook has the same First Amendment right as the New York Times."
"Facebook has toyed with skewing news in the past. During the 2012 presidential election, Facebook secretly tampered with 1.9 million user’s news feeds."
"The company also tampered with news feeds in 2010 during a 61-million-person experiment to see how Facebook could impact the real-world voting behavior of millions of people."
"An academic paper was published about the secret experiment, claiming that Facebook increased voter turnout by more than 340,000 people. "
"In 2012, Facebook also deliberately experimented on its users’ emotions. The company, again, secretly tampered with the news feeds of 700,000 people and concluded that Facebook can basically make you feel whatever it wants you to."
"If Facebook decided to, it could gradually remove any pro-Trump stories or media off its site---devastating for a campaign that runs on memes and publicity. "
"Facebook wouldn’t have to disclose it was doing this, and would be protected by the First Amendment.
But would it be ethical?"
https:// gizmodo.com/facebook-employees-asked-mark-zuckerberg-if-they-should-1771012990
https:// www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2015/05/26/heres-how-the-first-president-of-the-social-media-age-has-chosen-to-connect-with-americans/?utm_term=.5c455871cbd4
If I have inadvertently missed any sauce - sorry, way too may tabs open, but all easily available with a search.