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>If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Faceb
by IAmGraydon 9y ago
>If you're the kind of person who votes based on targeted advertising, or the hyperbolic posts of people who vote based on targeted advertising, don't ask Facebook to change. Get the f### off Facebook.
Yeah - see that's not how it works. CA and companies like them have developed far more clever ways to influence you than targeted advertising. The best of these techniques go undetected by you, and are coordinated by machine learning systems which know more about you than you do. Basically, if you are online, you are under their influence whether you know it or not. Don't fall for the illusion that you aren't susceptible. As emotional as you appear to be from your posting style, you are exactly the kind of person that they target.
- fortythirteen 9y agoDon't mistake my form of emphasis as overly-emotional behavior, or my statements as any indication that I see myself as significantly more rational than the average person. There are steps you can take to make yourself less susceptible to propaganda, and it starts with disengaging from the Huxleyan, social media, dopamine machine. Until you do that it's near impossible to get a real sense of your own cognitive biases.
- olleromam91 9y agoSo the millions of voters that are by any definition technically illiterate and consumed by said dopamine machine...possible your loved ones...do you not seek justice for their sake?
- fortythirteen 9y agoJustice? Because political actors used the available tools to their advantage? If we're going to go down that line, what justice should be served to Jimmy Kimmel, who regularly pushes his political agenda in what's supposed to be a variety show?