A multi-month hunt for political disinformation spreading on Facebook in Europe suggests there are concerted efforts to use the platform to spread bogus far right propaganda to millions of voters ahea

Facebook found hosting masses of far right EU disinformation networks – TechCrunch

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Algorithms don’t have a sense of civic responsibility or ethics.  They are just doing their job (optimizing for engagement).  FB profits off human attention and the best way to hold humans’ attention are also the worst things about us

Damn, when profit is leading decision 🙄 let spread misinformation just so people get more outraged thus more active online.

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