[HN Gopher] Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who ...
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Facebook spied on private messages of Americans who questioned 2020
election
Author : TechBro8615
Score : 42 points
Date : 2022-09-15 20:58 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (nypost.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (nypost.com)
| wan_ala wrote:
| Is there any other source than the NYpost?
| checkyoursudo wrote:
| "[Internet company] spies on [all their users]" is not really
| much of a story, is it?
| sparrish wrote:
| "FBI has [Internet company] spy on [all their users]" is a
| story.
| TrueSlacker0 wrote:
| It IS a sad world that this is the normal. No respect.
| benmmurphy wrote:
| Companies like Facebook go out of their way to try and show
| that they are protecting their users privacy. For example
| Facebook has a transparency report disclosing requests from
| governments: https://transparency.fb.com/data/government-data-
| requests If they are actively sending data to governments
| without a forced legal request then this is very much a story.
| aschearer wrote:
| saurik wrote:
| I mean, this is an issue with tech companies while Trump and
| his pile of paper documents has nothing to do with tech? If it
| makes you feel any better, talking a lot about Trump--even
| saying negative things about him--probably only helps him
| anyway.
| StanislavPetrov wrote:
| Are we talking about the you-know-who who tried to subvert the
| 2016 election with the fabrication of the Russiagate story, or
| the you-know-who who tried to subvert the 2020 election with
| fake electors? Once more a rorschach test for political
| partisans unable to accept objective reality and understand
| that our opaque, unauditable elections carried out on insecure,
| black-box electronic voting machines have not been "secure" in
| decades. I'm old enough to remember when Diebold voting
| machines were a huge issue after the 2000 election. Politics is
| a dirty business - the dirtiest. Politicians are dirty people.
| Anyone who believes that the politicians that they favor are
| somehow more honest and moral than the ones they disfavor
| either very young, very naive, or both.
| treeman79 wrote:
| So it's fine for the entire tech community to decide the victor
| in an election. So long as it's your guy?
|
| How would you feel if all the news media only said positive
| things about Trump, and reported on Bidens crimes.
| ImPostingOnHN wrote:
| so they could figure out who to amplify for engagement and thus
| increased profit?
|
| they are Facebook's favorite users after all
| ParksNet wrote:
| Big Tech, The FBI, and the Democratic Party becoming
| indistinguishable.
| redwoolf wrote:
| Don't be naive. The Republicans would do (and have done) the
| same thing.
| splintercell wrote:
| He's not naive to make the claim he did. Are you challenging
| his claim?
| annexrichmond wrote:
| Probably, and if they did, it would be just as wrong.
|
| The difference is that a lot of Republicans have lost total
| faith in institutions and the media because they feel they
| are largely coordinated at this point.
| benmmurphy wrote:
| Definitely. I know there are a lot of republicans who are
| happy to put their foot down if they are in power. It is
| fucking wrong and we need to oppose it whenever someone does
| this. Otherwise it is all just who whom all the way down.
| speeder wrote:
| I am from Brazil.
|
| As an outsider, what it looks like to me is that USA needs some
| kind of law to severely restrict people from circulating
| freenly between these environments.
|
| A huge amount of people in the media are ex-intelligence or ex-
| law enforcement, lots of people in big tech worked for
| democratic party and vice-versa.
|
| Or the secretary of defense that works for Raytheon...
|
| As an outsider it looks to me that USA really wants to top all
| other countries and be first place in the world in amount of
| conflict of interest, nepotism and industry inbreeding.
|
| Regulators aren't much better, for example Boeing employees
| that analyze the Max on behalf of regulators or Twitter that
| are just verbally interviewed about their security practices
| without providing any proof.
|
| I bet someone, somewhere, want the SEC to start to use same
| style of regulation when regulating insider trading. "Did you
| insider traded Mr. Senator?" "No I didn't. The laws that I
| passed that helped the company I founded are only coincidence."
| "Ah of course, carry on."
| kevinh wrote:
| The current head of the FBI was appointed by Trump. Are you
| arguing that the FBI head has no power or that he's secretly a
| stooge of the Democratic party?
| throwayyy479087 wrote:
| The fact that there's no word for the
| Educational/Military/Techno-Industrial complex is somewhat
| telling. You're not really allowed to notice it exists - watch
| this story ONLY be carried by the Post and the Daily Wire.
|
| In a few years it will be covered by the Grey Lady - just like
| the Hunter Biden laptop stuff.
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