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Facebook is subverting American democracy by censoring news that's outside of the status quo. They're now censoring American media as well [1].

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/11/technology/fake-news-onli...

Has American democracy been contacted out to Facebook? FYI Google created search by scraping sites.

Google never created search. According to Andreessen they were the 23rd company he saw. And by then there were established controls to stop Google from indexing your sites i.e. robots.txt.

These Russian companies are not following the rules Facebook has set so it's not really analogous to Google.

Not obeying robots.txt is at most a civil matter, such as Craigslist vs. 3Taps (largely unsettled btw, because internet is public by design). My question still stands.

The article is about a foreign government using data sold (or given for free) by an American anti-privacy company to build a facial recognition database. We seem to be plenty capable of subverting our own democracy without anybody’s help.