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To be fair, some people (to a lesser extent) were targeted at random when Facebook was showing some people more negative posts on their newsfeeds as an experime
by lettergram 10y ago
To be fair, some people (to a lesser extent) were targeted at random when Facebook was showing some people more negative posts on their newsfeeds as an experiment.
- nxzero 10y agoFact that it's random means it's not the same; explicitly talking about targeted efforts. Also, online efforts are not as resource intensive as in the real world. Only way this might be similar is if for training or testing reasons that someone randomly became the subject of some effort. Given the resources this would take, such efforts would be short in duration and likely near known R&D or training spots for entities that would engage in things like that.
- alkonaut 10y agoThat is both something that has a reason (they want to test something, in order to change/improve their product) and it doesn't require massive resources since it's automated. Believing this isn't necessarily crazy.