Facbook continues to get hammered about the way its
algorithms attracted ads now normally associated with hate speech, as in this
story from a San Diego newspaper.
What’s disturbing is how the fake news and ad storms
targeted people living in their own bubbles of group resentment (especially, it
seems, on the alt-right), while people who see themselves as intellectually
sophisticated and libertarian or classically liberal didn’t notice what was
going on.
Again, people don’t have a lot of contact outside
their own circles of cognition.
Here’s Mark Miller’s article on Antifa in the
Washington Post today, where the view that stopping fascism takes precedence
over free speech is advanced by some, even if that simply invites more reaction
from the right. For both sides, it’s about powerlessness,
being left out, and being ignored personally by the “elites” – the politics of
personal resentment.
The statute removals continue, the latest from Lee
Park in Dallas, where we used to have Easter Sunday concerts in the 80s when I
lived there.
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