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Let's assume that Facebook helped get Donald Trump elected. (Whether this is true or not, we'll find out). Are you saying Trump is ruining the country?

Then why does Facebook take the entire responsibility for "ruining" the country? What about Donald Trump himself and Trump supporters in the U.S?

I feel like Donald Trump's persona and his supporters having an influence in the country is way more complex issue than Facebook ad campaigns.

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> Then why does Facebook take the entire responsibility for "ruining" the country?

Arguably, because moral responsibility does not have to add up to 100%; an actor which decided to pursue an activity whose harms to others are reasonably foreseeable can bear full moral responsibility for those harms without in any way diminishing the responsibility of other actors who also participated in the same activity and for whom the results were also reasonably foreseeable. (This is similar to the legal concept of joint and several liability.)

Yes Trump is ruining the country and its institutions. I think there should be some decent people from the country in the right wing without fraud or sexual abuse accusations. Having different beliefs is not the problem. This guy is straight up criminal. He's gonna go to jail for collusion probably. His decisions affect the entire world not just the USA.

The issue is not the ad campaigns alone. The main thing is the bubble people are put into. Hate driven silos of people!

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