Al Franken Lays Into Facebook Executive Over Russian Ad Buys in Tense Senate Hearing
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) asked Facebook vice president and general counsel Colin Stretch how it was possible not to notice Russia’s political advertising purchases made with a foreign currency.
“How did Facebook, which prides itself in connecting data points, somehow not make the connection that electoral ads paid for in rubles were coming from Russia?” Franken asked Stretch.
Stretch admitted that the company "missed" the giant red flags. Franken was not satisfied, and he had a simple question to settle the entire matter in the future.
Franken asked Stretch if Facebook would simply commit not to accept payment in foreign currency for political ad buys in the United States. When Stretch tried to deflect with a word salad, Franken grew agitated.
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/al-franken-lays-facebook-executive-over-russian-ad-buys-tense-senate-hearing
The essence of what a oligarchy and its minions in the tech world look like, making billions of dollars, standing on a street corner selling wares, and not asking any questions where they got the money, just so long as they got the money..............no concept of putting the country first, the same country that allowed them to make those billions, to take some effort to protect the republic and its democracy .
The same companies not taking there "principles' into account, just the concept of making billions, closing their eyes to the fact that they are trying to deflect there responsibility, knowing that the money could have been greenbacks, and treating the Russian money has being the in the same format....................money to make a profit for the bottom line on wall street and there investors.
I personally do not use Facebook, Twitter, I use other platforms to access the web. I use this site and its threads, and others to be in the opposition research to expose the stupidity of the greed and the republicans and how corporate elites like Facebook, Twitter, use and expand the doctrine.................
Define laissez-faire:
a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights
a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action
And Twitter and Facebook and others failed in there laissez-faired
Al Franken is right, commonsense was thrown out the window, just like baby with the bathwater
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