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re If Silicon Valley won't stop fake news, we will
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 10:35:12 +0900
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From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> Date: August 3, 2018 at 09:52:07 GMT+9 To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] If Silicon Valley won't stop fake news, we will (for IP, if you wish) On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 06:06:09AM +0900, Dave Farber quoted:When we hear that the Russians have been using Facebook custom audience tools to target adverts that have illegally sought to interfere in the elections of other countries, we have to take notice, particularly when the company itself initially failed to spot it.This is a very generous rendition of the facts. It would be more accurate to say that the company *claims* that the failed to spot it....a claim that is very difficult to believe. To explain: Facebook is in the surveillance and data acquisition business. All the groups and messages and cat pictures and everything else aren't part of that: they're just the lures used to tempt people into handing over their data (and metadata). The core of Facebook is data, they've spent billions on it, and they have an army of people working on it. And yet, somehow, we're supposed to believe that they all completely missed what turned out to be obvious to individual outsiders working with on their own with no budget at all. That's an astonishing claim. ---rsk
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