Following Facebook's "suspicion of Russia" Jim Carrey calls out to "discard Facebook accounts and shares"

ByRobert Engmann

In the 2016 US presidential election, Facebook has a lot"False news" has been posted from Russia, 10 million people are watching it, It is regarded as a problem that Facebook has been profitably getting "advertising fee" for posting the "news" that public opinion has been influenced to a certain extent. Meanwhile, Jim Carrey, a comedian and a movie actor, has called for saying "I abandon my Facebook account and I will sell shares on Facebook".

Comedian Jim Carrey: Delete your Facebook account and dump the stock
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Jim said in a tweet on 7th February 2018, "I will sell my shares on Facebook and delete my Facebook account.Facebook gains benefit from Russia who interfered with the presidential election in the USA, now I do not take enough action to prevent fear.I want to call other investors and people who think about the future to do the same. " In the tweet, Illustration depicting Facebook's Zuckerburg Mark "not good!" And a hashtag "#unfriendfacebook" attached to the text.

I'm dumping my@facebookstock and deleting my page@facebookI encourage all other investors who care about our future to do the same.#unfriendfacebookpic.twitter.com/KHWgZzhhmp

- Jim Carrey (@ JimCarrey)February 6, 2018

The fact that Facebook was "used" by Russia to form the public opinion of the presidential election in the United States, and eventually received less profit as an advertisement fee in that case attracted attention and the algorithm for generating newsfeedI was influenced by the Russian sideThere are also points raised. Originally, CEO Zuckerburg had argued that view was "crazy", but laterApologize for lack of thoughtdoing.

Jim, interviewed by CNBC, said Facebook "It should be monitored by people with stocks of social media platform, this mechanism that everyone can use easily is not operated with more responsibility What we need now is an active investor who advocates the need for responsible monitoring and what the world needs is conscientious capitalism. "

Jim seems to have considerable concern about the matter and he states as follows. "For a long time the United States has enjoyed the merit of being protected from others by sandwiching both sides of the national land by the sea but now that social media connect the world with" cyber bridge " Those who have not thought of it are coming with it and we are allowing it. "America can not be protected by making a" wall. "

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