Sacha Baron Cohen On Facebook: 'they Would Have Let Hitler Buy Ads'

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Facebook Helped Bill O'Reilly Shill For A Company Accused Of Scamming Customers | HuffPost
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-oreilly-facebook-advertisement_n_5dd88ccae4b0913e6f6ca254
"Having lost his massive platform where he used to tell black people they looked like drug dealers, O’Reilly has found a new grift: urging Americans to pay for investment advice from a subsidiary of a company that has been repeatedly accused of peddling false information to consumers.

Facebook advertising has been a boon for scammers. The platform provides a relatively inexpensive way for advertisers to micro-target consumers based on their location, education level, interests and political leanings.


O’Reilly has appeared in nearly 1,000 Facebook advertisements since August promoting “Liberty Through Wealth,” an initiative paid for by The Oxford Club. Named to reflect a “combination of old-world sensibility and modern technology,” according to its own description, The Oxford Club sells subscriptions to newsletters containing investment advice its ads claim can make readers rich — just like O’Reilly."
 

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Yeah, sadly this is a natural consequence of the both sides attempt at an argument. Once certain views and opinions weren't checked at the door by so called intellectuals it was just a matter of time before social media sites and the people who run them saw their opportunity to draw in the big whales. There's no profit like illogically angry and downright moronic people. Get them on your side and you'll never not make at least some kind of money.

Trump knows this. Fox news. Some comedians. Some music artists. Etc. There is no money like a racist's money. No money like a sexist's money. No money like a homophobe's money. No money like an islamaphobe's money. And so on. Those kinds of people will be loyal to companies until the end. As long as those companies do what most social media sites do and allow the worst of the worst to feel like they matter.

Cause what will the rest of the world do? Leave? Not use those sites anymore? Use ad blockers? Anti-trackers? Call their congress people? Support others who are against it? While the sites very slowly and painfully die from their choices? Yeah. They will.

Why? Well that's easy to answer. If you've had a job where you had to do the same thing over an over again then you kind of understand. Those whales regularly target the same groups of people for the same excuses in the same ways around the same times. They're whales. What else would be expected.
 

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Facebook Helped Bill O'Reilly Shill For A Company Accused Of Scamming Customers | HuffPost
"Having lost his massive platform where he used to tell black people they looked like drug dealers, O’Reilly has found a new grift: urging Americans to pay for investment advice from a subsidiary of a company that has been repeatedly accused of peddling false information to consumers.

Facebook advertising has been a boon for scammers. The platform provides a relatively inexpensive way for advertisers to micro-target consumers based on their location, education level, interests and political leanings.


O’Reilly has appeared in nearly 1,000 Facebook advertisements since August promoting “Liberty Through Wealth,” an initiative paid for by The Oxford Club. Named to reflect a “combination of old-world sensibility and modern technology,” according to its own description, The Oxford Club sells subscriptions to newsletters containing investment advice its ads claim can make readers rich — just like O’Reilly."


You talking about ATT? :)
 
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You talking about ATT? :)

If your question has to do with the Newsmax/O'Reilly/AT&T deal, no I don't think the article, which excerpts I quoted above was about that. (Unless you're hinting at some connection I'm presently unaware of).

It was focused on how Facebook policies allow, not only for outright false and fraudulent political ads, but also allowed (before Huffpost reported it... we're led to BELIEVE) easy access to SCAMMERS, including the cited entities backed by O'Reilly who, according to the article, have misinformed (if not outright BILKED) consumers via the promotion of "get rich quick" schemes and fraudulent, unproven "miracle" medical cures.

The article further made mention of certain "partnerships" between these entities (The Oxford Club and Agora) and certain right winged notables, from which sprang not only a certain degree of medical malpractice, but also the distribution of the usual reich winged, conspiracy lunacy:

"One of the ways Agora gets people to read its factually dubious claims is by paying famous conservative people and organizations to lend their name recognition and email lists to the cause. Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Mike Huckabee, Herman Cain, and the Daily Caller have all partnered with Agora-owned entities, according to Media Matters’ Eric Hananoki, who has subscribed to “several hundred right-wing email lists” to document the grift.

These partnerships accentuate Agora’s bad investment advice and pseudoscientific health claims with a dose of partisan conspiratorial fear-mongering. Earlier this year, subscribers to Hannity’s digital mailing list received an email asking: “Did These Dems Cover Up a TRUE Cancer Cure?” The email, sponsored by Agora subsidiary OmniVistaHealth, links to a video of a man who claims he can cure cancer, diabetes, dementia and heart disease. It encourages the reader to sign up for a paid newsletter that costs $37-$74.
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i.e. yet ANOTHER example of how the GOP AND THEIR SHILLS profit from the ignorance and gullibility of their CONSTITUENCY.
 
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Zuck certainly intends to help Trump as much as possible as such blatant lies and half-truths are to be allowed.

Famed novelist Stephen King has deleted his Facebook account over concerns the platform supports a “flood of false information” and fails to protect its users’ privacy.

Announcing his decision to his millions of Twitter followers Friday, the prolific horror writer joined a chorus of criticism toward the social media giant as it resists pressure to remove false claims from politicians. Facebook also opted last month to keep the tools that help politicians and other groups target its users, adding to fears it will mislead voters in the 2020 presidential race.

Stephen King quits Facebook over ‘flood of false information’ and privacy concerns
 

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I don't think there's a crowd of people more willing to part from their cash as much or as fast as republicans and conservatives who aren't in office. This is why big companies love them so much. All you have to do is say oh such and such hates america and these idiots will give you every last dime they have.

It doesn't matter if your service is good. Doesn't matter if your service actually makes their lives worse. All you have to do is scream merica and they'll throw money at you like a groupie for a rock band. lol
 
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Zuckerberg is one of the half dozen most dangerous human beings on planet Earth and an equal to Trump when it comes to endangering the security of the United States.


Facebook has spent the past few days in round-the-clock conversations with advertisers, trying to persuade them to come back to the platform with the promise of modest changes to address concerns that the social network profits from hate and outrage.

But advertisers and the agencies they work with say they are still negotiating. And they say they are so far unimpressed with promises to better police hate speech, including labeling some politicians’ posts when they break the company’s policies. On Tuesday, when the civil rights groups that organized the efforts expect to sit down with chief executive Mark Zuckerberg, they plan to push for a rash of changes, including adding a C-suite-level executive dedicated to ensuring that the company’s policies don’t contribute to racism and radicalization.

More than 750 companies including Coca-Cola, Hershey and Unilever have already temporarily paused their advertising on Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram. More companies have joined the movement every day, with recent additions including Walgreens, Best Buy, Ford and Adidas. More than 200 advertisers joined in the past 24 hours.

Facebook is working to persuade advertisers to abandon their boycott. So far, they aren’t impressed.
More than 750 advertisers are boycotting Facebook, asking for better policing of hateful content. Facebook’s concessions so far haven’t won them over.