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Maybe it is just myself, but I see a lot of people actually believing that there is a simple equation: I have your data=I can make you do whatever I want Mayb
by jaclaz 9y ago
Maybe it is just myself, but I see a lot of people actually believing that there is a simple equation:
I have your data=I can make you do whatever I want
Maybe I am too optimistic, but I would believe that - once set aside what the data/campaigns organizers say (to sell their services) - it is not like millions of people are so easily tricked into voting for this or that candidate.
If this is what happens, the big issue seems to me more about educating the seemingly way too gullible people, before and besides removing "fake news" and "targeted advertising".
- marci 9y agoIt's optimistic to believe it mostly affects gullible people (whatever gullible means to you). https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
- jaclaz 9y agoWell, from the article you cited: >Mr. Kramer wrote that changing the emotional makeup of the news feeds had a minimal impact, prompting users to produce an average of one fewer emotional word per thousand words over the following week. What I am saying is that I find unlikely that they can change the voting preference, if not that of really gullible (or if you prefer "very easy to manipulate") people.