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There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc. For instance (fro
by jimmytucson 9y ago
There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc.
For instance (from Wikipedia):
> In April 2016, Correct the Record announced that it would be spending $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about Clinton.[1][4] The organization's president, Brad Woodhouse, said they had "about a dozen people engaged in [producing] nothing but positive content on Hillary Clinton" and had a team distributing information "particularly of interest to women".
- superioritycplx 9y agoThen there's ShareBlue.
- gaius 9y agoObama’s team bragged that Facebook was actively helping them in 2012. So we can assume that political ads that fit the narrative will be rubber-stamped.
- moduspol 9y ago> There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions But those ways didn't help Donald Trump get elected.
- rock_hard 9y agoHow do you know that?
- methodover 9y ago> There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc. ... and Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, etc. When I'm discussing politics with friends on Facebook, at least I know I'm talking to real people whom I've met in person. This isn't true with most other platforms. (Except some followers on Twitter...)
- pjc50 9y agoFacebook has a really annoying habit of showing you things that your friends have liked or commented on, which may not be from real people ..
- pjc50 9y agoThere's a difference between targeting people who believe inaccurate things and presenting them with correct information, and finding people who believe inaccurate things and targeting them with even more fake news. It's just rather difficult to distinguish between the two.