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Some of the ads I was reading were would take extreme stances that make the other side get a distorted view of a group. I saw an LGBT ad from Russia that sugges
by jryan49 8y ago
Some of the ads I was reading were would take extreme stances that make the other side get a distorted view of a group. I saw an LGBT ad from Russia that suggested we make it illegal for heterosexuals to adopt. This would do damage to said movements in that people will ignore their legitimate messages as well when them deem them extremists.
- dilap 8y agogood point; that could indeed cause 'unnatural' dissension. (a related phenomenon that occurs even w/o impostors: people in group A tend to pick the most outlandish, crazy members of opposition group B to critique (and vice-versa); each group, by focusing their criticism & attention on the least-reasonable members of the opposing group, becomes convinced that only unreasonable people are in the opposition. (and any large group will have unreasonable members, of course.))
- chris11 8y agoI think this showed another more fundamental problem with Facebook. Their focus on increasing user engagement can end up putting users in hyper-partisan walled gardens. Then people can end up less willing to compromise.
- r00fus 8y agoSo a false flag/ Joe job
- alexandercrohde 8y agoCould you link that one? I can't seem to find it
- jryan49 8y agoThis was the image I was talking about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/buDyxBhuwEgTWpgvuiE_wMVI6D4=/1484x0/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com/public/JGYIJPRTN47INP4WM3QAM7EY64.png https://www.washingtonpost.com/resizer/buDyxBhuwEgTWpgvuiE_w... in this washington post article (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/these-are-the-most-popular-russian-facebook-ads-from-each-month/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.70c7820d2adf https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/10/t...)