News comment: Facebook and the Russian ads
The article talks about the measurements and the process Facebook is going through next working with congress to investigate the fake accounts linked to the Russian government where they paid for ads that either praised Donald Trump or attacked Hilary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.
This article caught my attention thanks to the use of quotes, and the meaning behind. during the article they use multiple quotes from Mark Zuckerberg and some employees of the government. It caught my attention because in all of them they make Zuckerberg sound so relaxed and nice. Making him seen like a good guy; so at first I thought the article was being biased. Then the other quotes came where they explained it took them 10 months to release that information and there they make you think about the other side of the story.
At the end all I know is that apparently Facebook is doing all they can and being cooperative to get the information out and even prevent more in the future. but I also wanted to talk about this article because of the impact it has, or Facebook has. To think that 10 years ago Facebook was just being created and used only in certain colleges; and now is part of a whole secret plan form one government to support or attack candidates and help turning elections around. we’ve come a long way; and this really says a lot about our current society, where the internet makes possible everything that you can imagine. Wonderful sure, but when you look deeper and deeper it just becomes more of a worry.