https://doctorow.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8

I'll give you the punchline:

  Maybe Facebook’s aggressive suppression of accurate assessments of
> disinformation on its platform are driven by a desire to hide how expensive
> (and profitable) political advertising it depends on is pretty useless.


I mean, we do find it pretty hard to change peoples' minds when they are
made up, how much should we believe that advertising can change anything?

via hackernews
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