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Cause and Effect (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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[–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Every Facebook profile posted to /r/HermanCainAwards (the subreddit for mocking deluded people who died of COVID while spreading misinformation) was the same. Whatever the formula was it worked great at sucking in a specific sort of person

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago*

    What’s incredible is Facebook is not liable for that at all.

    What if… I dunno, a giant school peddled that same info? Or some religious figure got a ton of people killed? There’s really not a good metaphor for Facebook, which is why folks don’t really know of the sheer influence they command, yet are still treated like a garage startup operating a fair forum that needs legal protection.

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