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Part One: Let's Look at the Facebook Papers

Behind the Bastards

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The Share Button Is Getting Started on Facebook

In september of 20 20, facebook rolled out a study of the share button. In part because users are much more likely to share posts that have already been liked by other people they know,. Even if those posts are hateful, bigoted, bullying or contain inaccurate information. The shit at canocias started on facebook. A lot of the like, let's get a militia together and protect businesses. And then five six months later you're making serious plans to assassinate a federal agents or kidnap a governor or something similar. So rather than expanding their tests on the impact of removing the like button on a broader scale, mark zuckerberg and other executives agreed to allow testing only on a

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