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Re: Living On the Planet (none / 0)
The Politics of Facebook and Google LISTEN
"Tech companies have their own politics, and those political agendas seep through to the news that they choose to display" on their pages.

"Seep through" is an understatement.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Fri Dec 1st, 2017 at 03:00:09 AM EST
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The fundamental rule of cyber-space:  if you do not pay for the product you are the product.

Google and FaceBook are in Brand-Protection mode.  They see what happened to Twitter and they don't want it to happen to them.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Sat Dec 2nd, 2017 at 05:48:37 PM EST
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