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Before someone points out that nations have always done this: It has never been this effective, targeted or difficult to uncover.
by altcognito 9y ago
Before someone points out that nations have always done this:
It has never been this effective, targeted or difficult to uncover.
- xienze 9y ago> It has never been this effective Debatable, unless you're taking the claims that $100K of meme-tier ads on Facebook changed the outcome of the election at face value. > or difficult to uncover. Is it really? Facebook certainly seemed very sure of every little ad that was purchased by a Russian party.
- altcognito 9y ago> Debatable, unless you're taking the claims that $100K of meme-tier ads on Facebook changed the outcome of the election at face value. It's not just Facebook, or Twitter, or 4chan, or Reddit, or HN, or IRC, or email, or TV ads, or superpac ads, etc.... Ads can be targeted moreso than ever, celebrities are more easily roped in willingly or as useful idiots. Content has wider possibilities ("verified" emails). People are much more primed for disinformation than they were in the past. > Is it really? Facebook certainly seemed very sure of every little ad that was purchased by a Russian party. They paid in rubles. They didn't seem to even think it was terribly important to hide.
- jdoliner 9y agoIt's never been this effectively targeted at The US. US meddling has been much more effective than this, and the tactics much more extreme. It's also not exactly difficult to uncover, Facebook is telling us exactly what they did.