Friday, March 23, 2018

Jim Treacher explains Facebook falling out of favor with the left

Treacher first complains on PJ Media about Facebook being a massive pain in the butt. That causes him to focus more on Twitter, another site with problems of its own.

And the whole time I'm thinking, well, you bring this on yourself.

Then he gets to it.
That unflattering Aaron Sorkin movie didn't take Zuckerberg down, nor did the scandals about rapes and murders on Facebook Live, nor did the stories about Facebook's innumerable privacy violations. Time after time, Zuckerberg would just smile his creepy, robotic smile and wave it all away. But that might not work this time, because now he's being blamed for the greatest sin imaginable in 2018 America: Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
Zuckerberg apologized for allowing an app to gain access to personal information of 50 million users without their consent. He regrets not doing more after discovering Cambridge Analytica gained access to broad portions of Facebook users data in 2015.

He apologized for Facebook being Facebook. That's what they do, collect data and on its users and sell it.

Treacher provides a video of Zuckerberg CNN interview, but nobody want to watch that.

Zuckerberg provides a timeline of events but skips the years between 2007 and 2013. He doesn't mention Facebook helping Obama win.

Which was fine then to have their personal data mined and used when it helps their guy win but a straight up crime when the other side does it.

It's unclear if this will actually hurt Facebook. People make a big fuss then return to being complacent about how people profit from using their personal data. And next week media will present yet another reason why Hillary lost.


3 comments:

edutcher said...

If Zuck can mine data for the Lefties, somebody can mine data on the Lefties.

Nifty.

Methadras said...

Marxicrats don't like it when they don't own a monopoly on data. Awww, poor marxicrats. Besides, the notion that Zuck says that the data went to Analytica was without permission is just a lie. When people signed up for the surveys, it was in the ToS. People just don't read those and that's why I never do that shit on facebook like seeing what my IQ is or how old I really look or what kind of asshole I am. I already know that shit.

deborah said...

Did he purposely help Obama and purposely not help Hillary?