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am_Unition  ·  939 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The "mother of all lawsuits quietly filed last month vs Facebook in Delaware"

I heard that F*c*book is now taking out adds on its own users' newsfeeds to push pro-themselves messaging. I'll even see ads in MSM news articles that say "F-book supports updated internet regulations", and it's like "Welp, thanks for wasting a few pennies on me to push your propaganda, I'll always hate your company :D!".

I fully expect this lawsuit to go nowhere. This company and the Zucc ("not our Mark" is now Hubski canon) have more monies than Trump, who, if nothing else, has demonstrated that our justice system is increasingly for sale.

Most of us weren't ready for social media. NextDoor alone suggests the home-owning Boomer class surrounding me is barely literate. My generation is too busy masterbating to their own insta (heavily filtered) pictures. My dad can't even parse for truth in forwarded emails from fellow closeted quasi-bigots. Analogs with disruption caused by the advent of radio pale in comparison to the consequences of the internet.

What a time to be slowly dying at a societal level.





kleinbl00  ·  939 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The lawsuit is a bunch of pension funds accusing Facebook et. al. of insider trading and corporate malfeasance. Your expectations are not material to the subject at hand.