Thursday, November 15, 2018

There needs to be regulation of social media and it's access by hostile elements.

But, the leadership of Facebook needs to evaluate the idea of leaving the company.

November 15, 2018
By The Forward and Alyssa Fisher

When it came out last spring (click here) that the privacy of millions of Facebook users was compromised, the company’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg needed a plan to shift the anger — so she threw George Soros’s name into the mix.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that while Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg was apologizing for the social media giant’s tumbles — for the compromised data, for its involvement in the 2016 presidential election, for broadcasting propaganda — Sandberg sought damage control. That, the Times found, involved attempting to discredit Facebook’s protestors by linking them to liberal financier and philanthropist Soros, who is seen as a boogeyman to the far-right....