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Baitball Blogger

(46,775 posts)
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 10:04 AM Sep 2020

I think I know how Facebook is preparing to push Trump's memes.

Yesterday, I was receiving quite a few "suggested" articles from two or three news sources. I only recognized one. The local FoxNews. I hid all of them, so I don't remember the names of the other two.

But today I understood what's going on. The articles they link to are the kinds of things that I would normally consider newsworthy, like the nurse in Ocala who is fighting for her life. She's black, she's high-risk and no one wants to give her a lung because of the high-risk factors.

Then it occurred to me, Facebook is innocuously weaning me on right-leaning news sources that will be crucial to pushing Trump's message during and after the election. It's a Trojan Horse. They can turn that switch on when Trump needs it the most.

Someone should get on it, and stop them from using this ploy.

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I think I know how Facebook is preparing to push Trump's memes. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Sep 2020 OP
Did you ever see this TedTalk? Sanity Claws Sep 2020 #1
Very powerful. Baitball Blogger Sep 2020 #2

Sanity Claws

(21,863 posts)
1. Did you ever see this TedTalk?
Sun Sep 27, 2020, 11:08 AM
Sep 2020

It is about Facebook, how it broke election laws in Britain to get Brexit passed, and how FB is unaccountable. How it spread its messages are untraceable.
My eyes were really opened by this TedTalk.

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