Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump--and Democrats from Themselves

by Rick Wilson

I loathe saying this, but Biden needs to up his Facebook game, and he needs to do it yesterday. Trump’s campaign, for all its flaws, has Facebook very clearly on their side; Mark Zuckerberg has consistently acted in Trump’s favor, refusing to block even his most ludicrous lies and incendiary provocations. Why? Who can see into Mark Zuckerberg’s android heart? Is it a desire to avoid regulatory oversight, or to destroy the planet in a sea of nuclear flame? He’s not telling. But the ludicrous amplification mechanism of Facebook, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Trump and Russian online propaganda (but I repeat myself) are still in place on Facebook, turning the social network into a hive of conspiracy-theory whackadoodles and their millions of friends. Biden has to buy, borrow, or steal a group of Facebook ad experts and content developers. The site is a hellhole, but it’s also a hellhole where older voters are exposed to this campaign, particularly in the era of COVID.