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Facebook was used as a platform for a well-funded campaign to identify ill and vulnerable people to bring them to extremist churches specifically for the purposes of political radicalization.

This is a step change in the level of 'wrong' from churches merely using Facebook-guided advertising to exploit vulnerable people for religious purposes.

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So, basically what the church has done for all of recorded history?

I'm going to guess that when the church was recruiting executioners for the inquisition they weren't selecting for the most well adjusted people then either. And I guess you could call that radical politics.

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The churches don't have radical views though.

Also please see the HN guidelines regarding insinuating someone hasn't read the article.

Please see the HN guidelines against "shallow dismissals" and the expectation that responses are to be made to "the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

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