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A(nother) way in which Facebook is the 21st Century’s tobacco industry
Millions for front groups who insist that only Mark Zuckerberg can save us from Xi Jinping.
Have you noticed some extremely normal ads from extremely normal “grassroots activists” who are really, really worried that if we break up Facebook, China will destroy America and that is why Congress must absolutely stop trying to regulate America’s tech giants, the bristling colossi that stand guard to defend us from the menace across the ocean?
Those are extremely normal ads, because if there’s one thing that extremely normal people love, it is Facebook. A lot of extremely normal people think Facebook is amazing, which is why extremely normal grassroots organizations like American Edge, “A coalition dedicated to the proposition that American innovators are an essential part of U.S. economic health, national security & individual freedoms,” stick up for ‘em.
Which is why the totally cool bros at American Edge found a bunch of extremely normal “economic development agencies” to publish op-eds in newspapers across the country to defend Facebook…
