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Facebook pages linked to foreign interference in the recent UK elections were taken down after an ABC investigation. The foreign interference seemed to be used to manipulate voters to help elect Nigel Farage, who has been linked to politically extreme billionaires . Facebook Instagram AI algorithms plus troll farms have been used to manipulate voters around the world for at least the last 10 years. Governments should ban Facebook Instagram from collecting citizens private data as it’s clearly being used to manipulate them.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104045286

Brunswick 1y ago

We should ask the government to protect us from information? Do you realize what you are saying?

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Mr Example 1y ago

How about government protecting our privacy from being stolen by corporations for their profits.

I've never had a Facebook account nor have I ever agreed to their terms, but they have still harvested and profited from my private information.

Brunswick 1y ago

The government wants to steal from you and wants you dead. You want to ask them to protect you?

Mr Example 1y ago

> The government wants to steal from you and wants you dead.

Your government might want that but I live in a country with a functioning democracy that has universal suffrage and preferential voting so I don't have that problem.

Brunswick 1y ago

I used to believe that