Facebook is no place for high-risk financial investment offers

Facebook is no place for high-risk financial investment offers
Marketing financial products on social media creates a false sense of trust. (Image: NZH)
Maria Slade
Sarah Wynn-Williams’ claims in her memoir, Careless People, that a callous Facebook executive offered to censor on behalf of the Chinese Government as a way of getting the platform into China are shocking.Her further assertions that the revenue-hungry social media platform embedded staff alongside campaign programmers, copywriters, media buyers, network engineers and data scientists in Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign to help him win are appalling, but somehow less surprising.Things have changed since the New Zealand-born f...

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