Carole Cadwalladr Kicks Facebook's Ass-- The Petri Dish For Trump

Remember how Trump lied his ass off during the 2016 campaign about the "great healthcare" he would provide if voters elected him? No? You can watch him telling his health care lies here. Look at those morons behind him. Did the campaign rent them from Central Casting? How did he win? How? Yes, Hillary's horrible, and should have never been the nominee-- but not that horrible, not compared to what was then the alternative. I mean, even with the Russians cheating on his behalf-- which the Mueller report has now proven beyond any reasonable doubt-- Trump still got tens of millions of votes. Are there that many people that incredibly stupid? And, by the way, the CBO reported on Thursday that over a million Americans have lost their healthcare insurance since Trump occupied the White House. I wish I could say they're all Trump voters and will be incapacitated and unable to ever vote again. But...

In a Ted Talk this month in the Silicon Valley, U.K. journalist Carole Cadwalladr got into the details of how the Russians managed make sure Britain passed Brexit. As someone who has never looked at a Facebook ad in my life and as someone who thinks Facebook is primarily for pre-teens, it's almost unimaginable that a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters could have swung an election-- be it for Brexit or in the Trump/Clinton debacle. Cadwalladr called out those who she referred to as the "gods of Silicon Valley"-- the ones at Facebook in particular and by name-- for being on the wrong side of history and asked, ominously, "Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?"

She thinks so. I guess we'll find out next year, won't we? Please don't miss watching the Ted Talk; she's really excellent and enlightening. I mean what do you have better to do? Watch Game of Thrones or something?