Facebook Flunks Ethics 101

http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-cambridge-analytica-used-your-facebook-data-to-help-elect-trump/
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I'm disgusted with Facebook.

After much thought, I decided not to delete or deactivate my FB account.  Instead, I will stop using FB but leave a final post and cover photo to explain why I am leaving.

Deleting or deactivating would mean losing a big part of my online voice--in order to punish Facebook.  

By leaving up my final post, I am using the FB platform to speak out against FB.

My plan is to return after Donald Trump is impeached.

Facebook has committed two major crimes, both of which contributed to the defeat of Hillary Rodham Clinton and the election of Donald Trump.

1) Facebook provided a few of its own employees to the Trump campaign during 2016.  They worked out of Brad Parscale’s office multiple days a week. Parscale says he "used only Republican employees and wanted them to be partisan if they were going to work for the campaign," according to a Wall Street Journal article last October.

https://thinkprogress.org/facebook-embeds-trump-campaign-7…/ 


https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-and-google-face-emboldened-antagonists-big-advertisers-1521998394

2) Facebook sold the data of 50 million users to Steve Bannon's and Robert Mercer's shady "Cambridge Analytica."  That data was then used to find and target vulnerable voters by sending sheer lies about Hillary Clinton to their FB pages.  

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambridge-analytica-explained.html


Contributing to the election of the worst American president in history is an unforgivable act.

I regret not being able to keep up with my friends via FB and not being able to post flower photos, dog photos, and political comments.

But I have to turn my back on this medium that has contributed to harming so many people and endangering the entire world.

Email me at AnneLinstatter@gmail.com.

My political and feminist posts will be on my blog www.marthaymaria.blogspot.com 

Flowers and the beauty of God's creation will be on https://hallelujahdays.blogspot.com/ 

I will  read your tweets and fight the White House on Twitter @AnneLinstatter 

If you post on Instagram, I'll see you there, and I will post photos of dogs, flowers, etc.: annelinstatter. 

Hasta la vista...