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Comment by dinkledunk | Hacker News Reader

No, it’s not. It’s not a product, it’s a demo of research. You’ve been tricked by someone trying to rile up an internet mob. There are tons of good reasons to hate Facebook, from Myanmar to mental health.

But _this_, isn’t a good reason to hate Facebook. It is a weak grasping at straws and reflects a poor understanding of the underlying tech.

Happens to the best of us.

edit: @dang has decided not to let me respond to any comments. Since I'm no longer able to reply, I'll just remove my comments.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

You did this in multiple places—that's not cool. Since you've already been breaking the site guidelines in other comments too, I've banned the account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

New accounts are rate-limited by default, btw.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> This is no different than if Meta published a website which told you all these things after clicking a few links

They definitely already do that - make it trivial to find misinformation online. It has effectively ruined democracy.

This has a big disclaimer on it about how it is likely to produce misinformation and shouldn’t be used in any serious contexts. Hardly the same.

I just went to Google translate, configured it to translate from English to Dutch, and typed in "Don Hopkins is a terrorist!" and it said "Don Hopkins is een terrorist!" Do you think I have grounds to get hysterical and sue google?

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