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> You really don't think people seeing anti-hillary memes and posts on Facebook from Russian trolls all day didn't have a huge effect? What effect do you thin
by rdtsc 9y ago
> You really don't think people seeing anti-hillary memes and posts on Facebook from Russian trolls all day didn't have a huge effect?
What effect do you think it had? Do you think Hillary with $1.5B budget lost the election because of $100k Facebook ads?
- specialist 9y agoYa, I'm skeptical too. Let's say those foreign ads flipped 40k votes. That's statistical noise. But companies like Cambridge Analytics are only too happy to claim credit for having near supernatural powers. And obsessing over the margins keeps attention away from the huge, persistent, systemic, neglected problems. Amusing ourselves to death. More troubling are the rubes who fell for the protests / counterprotests organized by agitators.