Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook

By Andrea E. Menzies 07/14/26

Season 1 Episode 5 – Campaign Against Facebook

A podcast book review on The Campaign Against Facebook a book about the many huge lawsuits against the Internet giant. Here are just some of the Facebook lawsuits addressed inside.

1. Facebook is giving con-artists the information to popular pages.
2. Taking money to post advertisements, and shutting off accounts when there have been no violations. Never refunding the advertisement money.
3. Doing experiments with false posts on Facebook with no authorization from users.
4. Selling the information on underaged kids.
5. Posting “by mistake” fake news information that wins elections.

This episode addresses the 2012 and 2014 Facebook Emotional Contagion Study and the related lawsuit.

Note that in my class this semester we studied the Facebook Emotional Contagion Study conducted in 2012. Facebook conducted a study on hundreds of thousands of people with no consent. It was found guilty of this in court. It claims fake news that changes election results is a mistake, but practiced manipulation willfully right before-hand of the same type.

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