Facebook Attempted to Influence Australia's Election

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Who determines what is Real News and what is Fake News? Facebook along with its business allies, so-called progressive politicians and social justice wanker groups of course ...


Revealed: the powerful Facebook data matching tool the Liberal Party rejected over legal fears

John McDuling & Fergus Hunter | Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) | 23 March 2018

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/revealed-the-powerful-facebook-data-matching-tool-the-liberal-party-rejected-over-legal-fears-20180322-p4z5rh.html

Extract: Facebook approached Australia's major political parties during the 2016 election with a new and powerful data matching tool, but Liberal strategists rejected the offer out of fear it could breach the law by sending voters' personal details to the social media giant's offshore servers.

The opportunity for "advanced matching" in Facebook's so-called Custom Audience feature could be used by campaigns as a way to target specific people - including undecided voters in marginal seats - with highly targeted online advertising.

Fairfax Media understands Labor has used the tool.

The tool would allow parties to match data they had collected about voters - such as ages, emails, phone numbers, postcodes, names and birth dates – against similar information listed by users on their Facebook profiles. The combination of the two data sets would allow parties to target Australians identified as swinging voters with tailored ads when they use Facebook.

The revelation of the offer comes amid a global debate over role of social media in political campaigning and, specifically, allegations about Facebook's influence on the political process.

BILLIONAIRE Elon Musk has delivered a devastating blow to Facebook by abruptly deleting SpaceX and Tesla's pages after accepting a Twitter challenge.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/elon-musk-joins-deletefacebook-movement/news-story/718b9c7c254e4ad9bfcfbe3fef98190d

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Fairfax Media has established a beta version of the advanced matching tool was offered to the Liberal Party in the final weeks of the 2016 federal election, promising a 17 per cent increase in matching rates.

But senior party figures declined to use it ... The Liberal Party was concerned about possible breaches of the Privacy Act and the Electoral Act, according to sources.

The Custom Audiences tool is widely used by brands and advertisers to target potential customers.

"Lots of people use the custom audience tool. Civil society groups [social justice vermin such as the SPLC, ADL/ADC & Black Obamas Matter] use it too with their massive databases. I don't think it's anywhere near as sinister as people think," a Labor source said.

When Ken McLeod was defamed in a Facebook comment, he went straight to Facebook Australia to have it removed.

The response he got from the social media behemoth left him shocked - not only did Facebook Australia say it did not have authorisation to access his user records or take action about content on Facebook.com, it also claimed to not "control or operate the website".

Instead of deleting the comment as he'd asked, an official letter from Facebook Australia said he didn't have a "contractual relationship" with the company and needed to redirect his query to Facebook Ireland.

This is the same for every Australian Facebook user.

[For what appear to be tax purposes and a lack of data protection laws] The digital platform shifted its business operations to Ireland in 2010.

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-facebook-australia-doesn-t-operate-facebook-in-australia-20180323-p4z5ym.html

How Mark Zuckerberg embraced his Judaism | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-embraced-his-judaism/
Oct 3, 2017 - Although he was a member of the Jewish fraternity AEPi before he dropped out of Harvard, Zuckerberg didn't discuss his Judaism much before 2015. Replying to a comment last year, Zuckerberg wrote that he "went through a period where I questioned things, but now I believe religion is very important.".

How Mark Zuckerberg is embracing his Judaism | Jewish Telegraphic ...
https://www.jta.org/2017/10/02/life-religion/how-mark-zuckerberg-embraced-his-judaism
Oct 2, 2017 - Mark Zuckerberg delivering a commencement speech at Harvard University in which he quoted the Mi Shebeirach prayer, May 25, 2017. (JTA) — Mark Zuckerberg wrote last December on Facebook that for him, "religion is very important." Looks like he meant it. The Facebook ...

Mark Zuckerberg's Carefully Curated Jewish Conscience Is Both Shallow and Evasive
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/zuckerbergs-curated-jewish-conscience-is-shallow-and-evasive-1.5455322
Oct 4, 2017 - Mark Zuckerberg's bland Jewish allusions dont substitute for taking a real moral stand on Facebook's raw power to channel incitement, hate and electoral espionage. The richest Jew in the world gave us all a fresh take on teshuva, or repentance, this past Yom Kippur. "For those I hurt this year, I ask forgiveness and I will try to be better," wrote Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg. "For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness ...

Knesset summons Mark Zuckerberg - Ynetnews
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4383851,00.html
May 24, 2013 - But Gafni did not settle for a standard guest list, which includes Knesset Guard Sergeant-at-Arms Brigadier-General Yossi Grif, and decided to take it even further: He sent a letter to Zuckerberg himself "To the distinguished Mr. Zuckerberg, I have the honor to invite you to the Israeli Knesset to take part in a comprehensive discussion about defending civil rights in the era of the Facebook social network."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXdYSQ6nu-M