Prickly City by Scott Stantis for November 18, 2017

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    railwayman001  about 7 years ago

    Want to know how Facebook and other social media sites inadvertently peddled fake news from the Neo-Soviet Union, Carmen? It’s because Facebook chose to let trolls and bots put their fake Neo-Soviet ads up instead of their advertising department, which Mark Zuckerberg chose to get rid of in order to “cut costs” and “allow both sides to have their views.” This comes from that book “Conscience of a Conservative,” by Jeff Flake. Any readers want to give someone who will listen a Christmas gift this season? Oh, wait, I probably shouldn’t say “Christmas” around here. It might offend someone… Anyway, if you want a HOLIDAY gift to give someone, why not buy a copy of the book “Conscience of a Conservative” by Jeff Flake? That’s the book where I read about Zuckerberg’s decision to let bots control ads instead of Facebook’s advertising board. I thought that was interesting. Another good anti-Drumpf conservative book out there is “How the Right Lost Its Mind,” by Charlie Sykes, and it’s also available and I read it as well. Still another book is David Frum’s “Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic,” which is due out in January. If you’re reading this, I urge you to buy copies, folks.

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    Plods with ...™  about 7 years ago

    FaceSpace has ads?

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    Darsan54 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    It’s your base, Carmen, your most trusted, reliable voters.

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 7 years ago

    A foreign nation is conducting sophisticated cyberwarfare against the United States, and the Republicans are ignoring it because it helped a candidate with an “R” after his name. When they should be looking very closely at that candidate and asking WHY a nation whose goal is to weaken the Western world wanted him in power so badly.

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    Carl  Premium Member about 7 years ago

    No ads, especially political ads can be trusted.

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    Al Nala  about 7 years ago

    Feed your addiction, folks. FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED IT.

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    ms-ss  about 7 years ago

    Facebook spotted a mountain lion in our neighborhood Wednesday.

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    nosirrom  about 7 years ago

    I understand that in some countries they call ads (regardless of the type) what they really are – propaganda.

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    braindead Premium Member about 7 years ago

    Well, maybe the ADS can’t be trusted, but there’s no problem with the unending comments spewing hatred of Obama and Hillary though, right?

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    And OF COURSE there was NO coordination between those commenters and the Trump campaign, which is why NO investigation is needed and should be suppressed.

    Because patriotism.

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    Mr. Blawt  about 7 years ago

    Social media is no place to get your news, too many Russians trying to change the course of our Democracy.

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