• Hildegarde@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    And facebook tells its users to vote. Encouraging people to make their voices heard and engage in the democratic process is a good thing.

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      5 months ago

      I’d say absolutely, if Cambridge Analytica wasn’t a thing. I’d honestly rather have people not vote than be motivated to go vote because they think the liberal communists are putting fluoride in water to make frogs gay.

      It’s somehow always the organizations and individuals who are trying to manipulate people that seem to care the most about people’s voices being heard in politics. Churches, social media, daytime TV, that crazy uncle you don’t like to talk to at family gatherings…