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Then why is all the discussion in terms of who did win? People who don't like the result are "blaming" this phenomenon, without regard for the fact that this is
by gydfi 10y ago
Then why is all the discussion in terms of who did win? People who don't like the result are "blaming" this phenomenon, without regard for the fact that this is something that everyone is presumably doing.
When Obama won, I seem to remember a lot of people around here praising the success of his social media strategy.
- mirimir 10y agoYes, after Obama won, there was talk of using his social network to help drive his agenda. That didn't work out so well, I think. But the Brexit and Trump teams did a far better job of it. So yes, we have an arms race, and those with the best AI will become the power brokers. I like the analogy to high-frequency trading. Neither market valuation nor democratic process are very meaningful when driven by machine learning.
- gydfi 10y agoI'm not convinced that Trump had a better social media operation, just that he had a more compelling message. Stuff like /r/the_donald grew organically, people devoted thousands of hours of their own time to Trump memes, because they were inspired by what Trump had to say. Hillary's support was approximately as widespread, but less deep. Trump's online rallies were bigger for the same reason his real world rallies were bigger.