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I'm leaving facebook

I am a member of multiple facebook groups. Great for that purpose. The marketplace is decent too. Better than CL for the most part, as you see who you are dealing with (Ksl is great too). Don't use it for friend interactions.
 
I go to Facebook once in a while to just scroll for funny memes and ****.

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I have very little political discussion on Facebook. It hasn't been worth it. I prefer my Facebook interactions to be positive and loving and witty, and it is mostly that. If I need to argue politics, Jazzfanz fits the bill.

But if you've been using FB as a place for discussion, I can imagine that it is very difficult to change course.
 
I'm not whining about facebook or being dramatic about leaving. They provide a platform for verifiably false political advertisement. I'm not cool with that. That is the single exact reason why I have left. That's the point of this thread.

If you're cool with supporting that platform that's your own business. I'm not, for the extraordinarily specific reason I have specified. So I left.

Stupid thread? Yeah, it is.

Is it about making a big deal out of ME leaving facebook? Nope. If that's what you got you're dumb. Like really dumb. Like I'm surprised you can tie your shoelaces dumb.

Facebook has no policy to restrict obviously false political advertisement. You can tell facebook your advertisement contains completely false claims and facebook will say "that's fine, have you submitted payment, if so we we'll run you advertisement."

That's facebook. I'm not cool with that.
 
Well no one will be saying or admitting their ad is false lol. They would have to ban all political ads. In politics there's lies, damned lies, and statistics.
 
Jazz4ever said:
Well no one will be saying or admitting their ad is false lol. They would have to ban all political ads. In politics there's lies, damned lies, and statistics.
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Warren posted a completely false political ad which was approved by facebook. She made perfectly clear the ad was false. It got approved anyway. She did this to make the point very clear that Facebook is ready willing and able to gain revenue from false political ads.

I saw an odd add from something like the DNCC that was clearly a parody of the DNC that posted what was on the surface a pro Democrat ad. But it was clearly an ad that meant to confirm many conservative beliefs about the Democratic party while making easily countered (basically strawman) arguments. The comments were largely those of conservatives saying, "yeah right, but whatabbout..." and the echo chamber ensued.

Those two things crystalized for me the evil of Facebook. Facebook is clearly garbage, but this showed me clearly the evil. I don't use words like "evil" really ever. It's not part of my vocabulary. But I have no other way to describe the influence that Facebook exerts on our political process.

I mean there's stuff in our society, like McDonalds, that is garbage. It's bad for you, it's everywhere, the food isn't even that good regardless of its health consequences. But McDonalds isn't evil. They aren't deceptive, really.

Facebook is evil.
 
And what I'm advocating for here is that Facebook NOT provide a platform for ANY political advertisement. That's the whole ****ing point.
 
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