[robertwalsh0]

Zuck says that people are mad because people are sharing ideas that the other side doesn’t like but also defends FB’s actions in the German election: “We have been working to ensure the integrity of the German elections this weekend, from taking actions against thousands of fake accounts, to partnering with public authorities like the Federal Office for Information Security, to sharing security practices with the candidates and parties.”[1]

I’m very disappointed in Zuck’s intellectual honesty.

[1]https://gizmodo.com/facebook-deleted-tens-of-thousands-of-fa...

[jessaustin]

Zuck’s intellectual honesty

Is this a thing? [0] Let's face it, Zuck is too busy making money to even pretend. Even this current hamhanded "sorry we suck" posture is more of an attempt to convince the right people that he's going along with their favored narrative, than a sincere statement about anything that might or might not have happened.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/01...

[SomeStupidPoint]

I'm not sure I understand what's the contradiction between those two things -- he says that people don't like certain kinds of sharing and a large corporation with a lot of cyber security experience assists a government with security while also monitoring its own platform for abuse during the election.

[forthefuture]

People are retroactively upset that they didn't do this during our election.

[imron]

All the while pretending it was only one side engaged in such tactics.

[tessierashpool]

The Russians took out ads to depress African-American voter turnout, in Trump's favor.

The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.

[tyfon]

I'm not sure if this constitutes politics or what on HN, but as an outside, not taking part in the election and living in another country, here is my observation on this point.

Hillary f*ed up the Bernie Sanders campaign using pretty much the same tactics, only it was not the "Russians", they just did it themselves[0].

If anyone are to be accused for a dirty campaign it is her.

[0] https://www.salon.com/2016/06/20/congressional_black_caucus_...

[lern_too_spel]

On the contrary, your article doesn't say what you claim, and Clinton led the charge to enfranchise black voters. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/politics/democrats-...

[imron]

Well, at least future candidates know that they no longer need to spend billions on their campaign and can just spend a few hundred thousand on targeted Facebook ads instead.

> The Clinton campaign did not do anything remotely similar.

We are in agreement then that Clinton campaign was on a whole 'nother level.

[phs318u]

Apologies, but going off-topic to respond. It's highly likely that when all the Russia stuff plays out, Trump's campaign will be seen to have been so full of moles as to make the Cambridge Five look like amateurs.

In terms of sheer audacity, the Russian campaign is unprecedented in ambition and success. The CIA will be unpicking this cluster-fuck for a decade at least.

[sschueller]

Are you absolutely sure about that?

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/56638#efmAAGAA2...

[squozzer]

Let's stipulate the ads were deployed. Any proof that they worked?

[owebmaster]

Oh boy, as a Black guy I'd like to be able to flag this comment alone. This accusation is racist and criminal.

[puppetmaster30]

You have a lot of imagination.