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Old 01-08-2021, 09:35 AM   #1210
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Originally Posted by FlameOn View Post
Social Media needs to be held accountable for facilitating all of this over the last 4 years. By Facebook's only internal metrics, 64% of people that joined radical ideological groups did so based on Facebook's own recommendation engine.

https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-...-insurrection/
Here’s a twist. In the latest $600 checks bill, it was held up by Trump. In part because he wanted $2000/person, the other because he explicitly wanted to remove protections from the social media companies that protected them from people spouting false stuff like Qanon. That was also included in the bill.

The Democrats are big supporters of that bill, and it passed with their full support.

Again I am not a Trump supporter at all, but it goes to show how murky politics is down there. Its not a pure good and evil story by any stretch.
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