NAACP returns Facebook donation, calls for boycott on Tuesday
"...following revelations of how its platform was used to manipulate black voters in the 2016 presidential election."<p>This seems somewhat misguided... I know Facebook is the whipping-boy de jour, but it seems evident that Facebook is the biggest victim in all of this.<p>All of the bad press FB is getting lately... literally <i>years</i> after events occurred and after they've been working to rectify the issues is curious.<p>After all the bad press that was hammering Tesla for an extended period of time quickly dried up (after Elon Musk showed just how far he was willing to go to shake the short-sellers), Facebook suddenly took its place.<p>I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but it really feels like someone with a lot of power has organized and weaponized information for the sake of manipulating stock prices.<p>That doesn't have much to do with the NAACP itself, but these information campaigns have a side-effect of modifying public opinion and sentiment.<p>I really kind of feel ashamed of posting this -- it seems like such a low-value conspiracy theory, but it just seems strange to me how all this is playing out.