Summary: Facebook has begun cracking down on more and more pages politically targeting the United States. Especially with midterms coming up and what happened last election, Facebook is striving to prevent outside countries from influencing our elections. They say that these individuals are posing as Americans and posting lots of things that are very polarized politically.
Analysis: This is an important issue. It’s new ground for the country as things like this didn’t happen until recently. There was no way for somebody to infiltrate a system where everybody sees what they’re saying until now with social media. I believe it should be the job of the platform to keep the public safe from foreign influence on domestic elections. This reminds me of when Congress questioned Mark Zuckerberg earlier this year and the senators weren’t sure how to proceed as this is a completely new field of exploration.
Article Link: https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/26/tech/facebook-iran-removed-pages/index.html
This is all planned I believe and it really is an important issue. I agree with your statement . We're all just addicted to social media , this will affect us. -Alma Alvarado- Cabrera
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