It's almost as if Facebook doesn't ~really~ want to do anything to stop this stuff
https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/852266521820835844 …
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There's not exactly a lot of evidence they're wrong about that.
Don't believe everything you read. Is it really more complicated than that?
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