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Old 04-28-2022, 04:47 PM   #939
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: Song of the Day

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It is unclear to me which course of action benefits investors. What other criteria should I then apply?

Being weaponized in the 2016 campaign seems to have had only very marginal negative consequences for Facebook, for example.
It's hard, but imagine that the people running the company are human beings who care about doing the right thing by other people more generally, as opposed to just maximizing financial returns for their investors. You know, as if "should" implied some broader sort of morality, the sorts of things our ancestors believed in.
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