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The degree to which it influenced the election is questionable. Despite all the headlines, I haven't yet seen any convincing analysis of the impact of facebook
by MattyRad 9y ago
The degree to which it influenced the election is questionable. Despite all the headlines, I haven't yet seen any convincing analysis of the impact of facebook on the election (I'm not sure how one would even go about doing so). So far it seems like it's just a convenient vehicle for people that dislike the outcome of the election to express indignation.
- ikeyany 9y agoDon't be naive http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43476762 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-43476762
- mistermann 9y agoCan you point to the part of that article containing evidence of to what degree they affected the election?
- ikeyany 9y agoThe admission by the company executive.
- mistermann 9y agoThat's interesting. How would he know the degree to which he influenced the election? Believing any claims to somehow fact rather than plain old self-promotion seems rather naive, or am I missing something?
- emodendroket 9y agoEven if we presume those sentiments are completely sincere and disinterested, I don't know why we should believe he is an authority on US elections whose claims can simply be accepted at face value.
- mistermann 9y agoI would tend to agree. It's often not hard to convince people of something they want to believe.
- learnstats2 9y agoThis is obviously unmeasurable - there isn't convincing analysis because there can't be convincing analysis, as you admit. The fact that people were willing to spend an amount of money that breached electoral law in the UK, and presumably even more in the US, suggests that there was some reason for them to do so. This happened only because experts in this field believed it would influence the outcome of the election. That's your evidence.