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[–] 12 points 2 months ago*

Anybody remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal?
What stuck in my mind (and my craw) is not that the Zuckerborg fucked it up, but that what CA is doing - flooding social media with bot content to influence voting - was and still is perfectly legal.
That should've been the bigger scandal imo.

BTW that company was quickly renamed and still exists to this day.

So there's nothing illegal about what Mee-lon is doing here. And that's a broken system, to quote his on-and-off-its-complicated buddy.

That said, he's known to break the confines of too-weak legislation on this matter, and he's likely to do it here as well.

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