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This could be rigorously studied. A group of people could attempt to plant false advertising opportunities in their speech and then measure the frequency at whi
by lunula 10y ago
This could be rigorously studied. A group of people could attempt to plant false advertising opportunities in their speech and then measure the frequency at which related ads/posts arrive in their feed. I would trust something like this more than an assertion by FB that this is not happening.
- chris_wot 10y agoI think that if Facebook was caught doing this after they specifically denied it, then executives would probably be going to jail. I think if Facebook say they aren't doing this, then they aren't doing it.
- emerongi 10y agoEven IF this was true, do you really think the executives on their meetings go like: "Okay, if we deny this, we will go to jail. So let's tell everyone that we are spying on them!" No. Denying is the only smart move here.
- chris_wot 10y agoJust to be clear, are you positing that Facebook is actually doing what the article accuses it of doing?
- WalterSear 10y agoEasier to just monitor network traffic.
- grkvlt 10y agoNot just rigorously; easily studied, and checked. I haven't seen a single response here that says something along the lines of: 'Hey, I just did exactly the same as they reported the woman doing in the article, and she's right!' but instead, plenty of FOAF-type anecdotes about sort-of similar things. So, has nobody here bothered to check because they all trust news10.com as an impeccable source of technology news?