Comment by addicted
10 years ago
From my Indian friends on Facebook, it appears Facebook is showing messages that certain friends of yours are supporting, or signed up for Facebook basics, even if they never did anything of the sort.
It's creepy, and messed up.
Edit: (Leaving the original post untouched), it appears Facebook will show you as having supported Free Basics if you clicked polls which seemed completely unrelated (as the original article points out, polls about "Connected India" for example. Still quite a distance from having supported Free basics, which is what Facebook appears to show.
Ah yes, the new propaganda of the 21st century: the corporations try to convince you that all your friends are supporting their proposals, and so, you should too. It works. The single most important thing for most humans is being accepted by their confederates.
Pay close attention: the corporations have no scruples about manipulating you to get their way, and Facebook is no exception.
A conciliatory response to this deception from Zuck himself is warranted; this kind of lie-distribution (to over a billion people) shouldn't be accepted quietly. Furthermore, if Zuck wants his philanthropy efforts to succeed, lying to a billion people to support his company is going to torpedo it.
> convince you that all your friends are supporting their proposals
This is a serious problem, because China already showed us the end game of this tactic with Sesame Credit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI
Might be the last straw for me, time to shut down the old facebook account.
My friends kind of know me as a supporter of net neutrality and I was horrified when two of them shared with me their notification screenshots which was showing me as supporting Facebook "Free Basics".
Please post those screenshots with your denial as widely as possible to expose how scammy all this is.
I did that on Facebook and on Twitter as well with added text in the image as commentary. Hell, I even called some of my friends and asked them to do the same.
People here defend Facebook's actions what they don't realise is "motive", "intentions" and the modus operandi to achieve the goal. Facebook's actions and ethics are screaming foul play on steroids here.
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Would you mind linking to a copy of the screenshot here? (with your name etc. blacked out -- I just want to see what the notification looks like)