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Facebook certainly hasn’t forgotten; they were just fined $25 billion over that.

If the company putting at risk underlying social contract is not completely dismantled and its head is not sent in jail, the message they get is clear: go on as long as you can sustain the loss and profit. Or at least it's apparently the only way they can interpret it.

Reinforcement feedback loops, etc

Or the public could grow up, learn that algorithms are stochastic, and not let their vote be influenced by the number that pops up when they type in "vote" in the search bar.

If this is influencing your votes your democracy is already lost.

I'm not sure looking down on the general public helps anything. People are obviously influenced by spamming them with information. It works in marketing, it works on election billboards, it works in lots of contexts.

Trillion dollar industry vs individual struggling to afford this months rent.

The public can fight Facebook in the same way an infant can fight Muhammad Ali.

Well, how many kids could Ali defeat through brutal violent force before being sent to jail would then be the analogous question.

Well let’s make the next fine 250B, they clearly don’t care enough yet

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