This seems purposely ignorant. The election part is just one thing that makes it bad. I didn’t even mention politics but I’ll bite, from what I believe I hold as a rather objective view.
1) I never heard any talks of Obama campaigns being “evil”. My knowledge is they were positive, spreading a message hope. It was more of the fact that at the time, FB was demographically skewed young and he did well with young voters. I never saw any accusations of external election tampering, fear mongering, international influence, hacking, etc. It was not conducted in a way that one would feel call “evil” unless you just don’t like Obama and feel he is personally evil and that’s your baggage not facebooks. I can’t recall exactly, but I don’t think FB even really had an advertising mechanism back then. The algorithm was not what it is today, although it was still unhealthy by my standards by witnessing the addictive qualities it had.
2) Plenty of evidence Trump behaved evil. Probably even more so those who sought to have him elected. Fake news, propaganda, fear mongering, election tampering, hacking, meddling, name calling, etc. Even the most objective person on earth has to admit it was just a dirty election of epic proportions. All enabled by Facebook.
This is unhealthy. I don’t use FB and this effected me. It’s second hand smoke and I’m stuck on this flight. The don’t have to solve single thing regarding society, but that doesn’t mean they should be able to harm society. That’s why there are calls for regulation. Them being profitable is not in question, their ability to make decisions that balance profits with the health of their user base is what’s at question.
There’s plenty of people, myself included, that have voiced concerns about the negative consequences of this social network. But, like it’s a bit like the people warning of an housing bubble leadinf up to 2008.
Edit: a lot of typos, not fixing, but you get the gist
One difficulty of claiming a double standard is that often there isn't a perfect parallel.
The Obama and Trump campaigns were different, but I sorry--i dont believe the backlash is because of their campaign strategy but instead their politics.
You mention obama being 'positive' but that's very subjective. To other people, Trump is positive and hopeful.
And I don't agree that Trumps antics really had much at all to do with Facebook--nevermind social media or the internet at large. When Trump was testing his rhetoric at his gatherings, there wasn't any Facebook around.
And the meddling was greatly exaggerated. It's the type of freedom internet paragons all espoused. The internet is international. I didn't know we weren't allowed to comment on foriegn politics (Im not American citizen... Am I interfering right now?).
People talked about the internet creating a more democratic society. One where anyone can challenge the elite. Well guess what--thats exactly what happened. We just didn't like what came out when most people started opening their mouth.
1) I never heard any talks of Obama campaigns being “evil”. My knowledge is they were positive, spreading a message hope. It was more of the fact that at the time, FB was demographically skewed young and he did well with young voters. I never saw any accusations of external election tampering, fear mongering, international influence, hacking, etc. It was not conducted in a way that one would feel call “evil” unless you just don’t like Obama and feel he is personally evil and that’s your baggage not facebooks. I can’t recall exactly, but I don’t think FB even really had an advertising mechanism back then. The algorithm was not what it is today, although it was still unhealthy by my standards by witnessing the addictive qualities it had.
2) Plenty of evidence Trump behaved evil. Probably even more so those who sought to have him elected. Fake news, propaganda, fear mongering, election tampering, hacking, meddling, name calling, etc. Even the most objective person on earth has to admit it was just a dirty election of epic proportions. All enabled by Facebook.
This is unhealthy. I don’t use FB and this effected me. It’s second hand smoke and I’m stuck on this flight. The don’t have to solve single thing regarding society, but that doesn’t mean they should be able to harm society. That’s why there are calls for regulation. Them being profitable is not in question, their ability to make decisions that balance profits with the health of their user base is what’s at question.
There’s plenty of people, myself included, that have voiced concerns about the negative consequences of this social network. But, like it’s a bit like the people warning of an housing bubble leadinf up to 2008.
Edit: a lot of typos, not fixing, but you get the gist