it's remarkable how little power the social media companies really wield when they could destroy or create politician's entire careers on a whim by making slight tweaks to the ranking algorithm
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the gulf between our expectation of their power and their actual power is where all the russian intelligence bogeymen and cambridge analytica hoaxes slide in. people are in disbelief that such awesome power is in the hands of so few who totally refuse to use it
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and even now when mark and jack seem to sort of understand, they mostly just kowtow to the whims of the regime to downrank minor league reports about hunter biden
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to get a picture: if FB wanted, it could easily target Get Out The Vote ads to likely R voters in swing districts and move the needle without breaking a sweat. the fact that it doesn't actually do this is ... kind of inexplicable?
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woh this is even darker than the idea that I had
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