Facebook Exec claims credit for electing Trump.

A Facebook executive who backed Hillary Clinton's 2016 election campaign told colleagues in an internal memo last month that the platform could ultimately be responsible for President Trump's reelection.

In the memo, Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth wrote that the Trump campaign's use of Facebook's advertising tools were responsible for Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election. The company's political advertising platform, he added, "very well may lead to the same result" this year.
"As a committed liberal I find myself desperately wanting to pull any lever at my disposal to avoid the same result," Bosworth said in the memo. But he laid out his philosophical objections to any theoretical attempt at intervening. "As tempting as it is to use the tools available to us to change the outcome, I am confident we must never do that or we will become that which we fear."
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"So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes, but not for the reasons anyone thinks," Bosworth wrote. "He didn't get elected because of Russia or misinformation or Cambridge Analytica. He got elected because he ran the single best digital ad campaign I've ever seen from any advertiser. Period."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/tech/boz-trump-facebook/index.html

Set aside for a moment the plainly obvious bullshit, handwaving defense he offers in defense of that which made him rich, there's a blindingly obvious remedy to this: ban all political advertisements from Facebook by law. Whatever else it is, it's clear to even the most myopic that Facebook is not a credible source of information on any topic. It shouldn't be in the business of influencing our elections.

Post #432,195 by mmoffitt 1/7/20 4:08:04 PM 1/7/20 4:08:04 PM Reply	Facebook Exec claims credit for electing Trump. A Facebook executive who backed Hillary Clinton's 2016 election campaign told colleagues in an internal memo last month that the platform could ultimately be responsible for President Trump's reelection. In the memo, Facebook VP Andrew Bosworth wrote that the Trump campaign's use of Facebook's advertising tools were responsible for Trump's win in the 2016 presidential election. The company's political advertising platform, he added, "very well may lead to the same result" this year. "As a committed liberal I find myself desperately wanting to pull any lever at my disposal to avoid the same result," Bosworth said in the memo. But he laid out his philosophical objections to any theoretical attempt at intervening. "As tempting as it is to use the tools available to us to change the outcome, I am confident we must never do that or we will become that which we fear." ... "So was Facebook responsible for Donald Trump getting elected? I think the answer is yes, but not for the reasons anyone thinks," Bosworth wrote. "He didn't get elected because of Russia or misinformation or Cambridge Analytica. He got elected because he ran the single best digital ad campaign I've ever seen from any advertiser. Period." https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/07/tech/boz-trump-facebook/index.html Set aside for a moment the plainly obvious bullshit, handwaving defense he offers in defense of that which made him rich, there's a blindingly obvious remedy to this: ban all political advertisements from Facebook by law. Whatever else it is, it's clear to even the most myopic that Facebook is not a credible source of information on any topic. It shouldn't be in the business of influencing our elections. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #432,197 by Ashton 1/7/20 5:31:39 PM 1/7/20 5:31:39 PM Reply	Sign me up: it needs a Viral-machine Ad-set next.
Post #432,199 by boxley 1/7/20 9:15:43 PM 1/7/20 9:15:43 PM Reply	also ban all political ads from TV books, magazines etc not gonna happen, cable companies and others salivate at political season, FB is no different "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #432,200 by mmoffitt 1/8/20 8:31:52 AM 1/8/20 8:31:52 AM Reply	Au contraire, mon frere. FB is OBVIOUSLY different. There is no vetting of anything on FB. There's no editorial board for FB. In fact, the Chief Sociopath in Charge testified to Congress that he thinks it's good for the public to see political ads containing lies and distortions on his platform. No respectable newspaper or magazine would tolerate that. bcnu, Mikem It's mourning in America again.
Post #432,202 by boxley 1/8/20 3:21:13 PM 1/8/20 3:21:13 PM Reply	bwahahahaha! come watch my tv sometime "Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts" – Richard Feynman
Post #432,219 by Ashton 1/9/20 2:54:42 PM 1/9/20 2:54:42 PM Reply	a long-ago ditty comes to mind.. ... .... ... ... .... ... .... ... So let's all cease to think and read Watch Tee Vee and go to seed (I think we're There already; if author had a Plan for that? s/he failed to lay it on us). You, of course are an auto-contrarian .^.. flip-coin/no brainz required: 0-sum.

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