Mark Zuckerberg, boy genius, is worth about $64 BILLION and yet the cheap bastard can't stop festooning FACEBOOK with fake news and irritating "sponsored posts."
Facebook users are routinely seeing completely useless, unimportant and scam-filled garbage interrupting their MEMES, photos of lunches, and pictures of brats and other garbage.
Click to banish an annoying ad, and you get an annoying prompt: "What didn't you like? How can we bring you ads you'll prefer? Help us do better..." etc. etc.
The media is reporting on how Suckerberg made a lot of money off Russians who threw all kinds of ads and fake news on Facebook in order to help tilt the election to Trump. Less nefarious, but quite irritating, is Facebook's habit of allowing scammers to pretend celebrities are dead in order to do a "made you look" game.
How about this eye-catching squib that implies Marie Osmond has died:
"Vegas BIDS FAREWELL..." Considering how similar spots have "BID FAREWELL" to Betty White and others, it sure seemed like an obit. It SEEMS like the information is being posted on a real news site, the FRESNO BEE.
No, when you click the link, you're taken to some shyster website where the bait and switch is that Vegas is bidding farewell because Marie Osmond is retiring (oh, really) and devoting the rest of her life to hawking face cream.
Aren't you relieved that lovely Marie is not dead? That she only MIGHT be retiring from playing Vegas? That she probably isn't retiring at all, and is going to be like Cher and do farewell tours for 20 years?
So, go ahead, buy some gunk to help remove the wrinkles put there by "sponsored ads" and other SUCKERberg crap:
SUCKERberg apparently could care less what scammers and con-artists use Facebook. Not long ago, a "suggested post" for me was about MONTY PYTHON T-SHIRTS.
The comment section was dominated by a variety of knee-jerk nitwits shouting Python catch-phrases and cheering the idea of buying the shirts. The link led to...no, not the official Monty Python website, but a page on one of those "Do It Yourself" sites for putting logos on mugs, mousepads, t-shirts or anything else. Oh, the glory of knock-off technology.
The company making the shirts and mailing them out? "We don't know what's legal or not, and we are not obligated, by DMCA law, to ask our clients. If someone from Monty Python sees the item, fills out the forms properly, offers identification credentials and a valid phone number and address, we would certainly consider a takedown." PS, if a brazen thief wants to file a counter-notice, he can. He can dare, in this case, the Python lawyers to spend thousands of dollars to file an injunction and lawsuit. Ha ha, and for what? To keep some clod in Utah from selling a hundred shirts and making $2,000 profit? It costs more to sue, and guess what, no "punitive damages" unless you can prove malicious content.
I left a comment: "Is your shirt authorized by Monty Python? Are they getting royalties?" No reply.
Facebook itself is carefully rigged so that it's difficult to complain to anyone about anything. They're too busy making money for Mark Suckerberg. $64 BILLION isn't enough for the skinny, cheese-faced grinning son of a bitch. When it comes to being another powerful, soulless Internet greed-tool, Suckerberg has left his Mark.
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