PBS’s “Frontline” recently aired a two-part series titled “Facebook’s Dilemma”. The series highlighted Facebook’s privacy holes and how it was used as a tool for genocide in Myanmar.
Unfortunately, the program also pushed the narrative that Facebook was used to affect the outcome of the 2016 presidential campaign, and possibly the 2018 midterm elections.
The program included interviews of James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, who claimed that the Russians used Facebook to elect Donald Trump, and comments by Rand Waltzman, researcher for the Defense Department, who said that social media can manipulate users to vote in a prescribed way.
It’s troubling that very smart people like Waltzman and Clapper can confidently make such statements, but have never run a political campaign.
From my experience as a campaigner and chair of major political party in San Francisco, I offer ten reasons why Facebook fails to deliver votes.
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