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I understand Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, but how is Google being more complicit?

• 8bitchemistry 8y ago
  Perhaps via youtube's search and recommendation algorithms optimising for misinformation as an engagement strategy?
  • bduerst 8y ago
    Is there proof that they are?
    • 8bitchemistry 8y ago
      I encourage you to have a look at Guillaume Chaslot's https://algotransparency.org https://algotransparency.org - it identifies what videos YouTube's algorithm most often recommends, based on a given search. Serious question (I'm not trying to be facetious): looking at those recommendations, what do you think?
      • bduerst 8y ago
        That is not proof. It's cherry picked topics for uncontrolled Youtube recommendations to a bot account they created. I think nothing about that is scientific and it screams tech illiteracy.
• prepend 8y ago
  Google ads were also used substantially during 2016 [0]. Google’s ability to target messages to demographics that they only know because of their data trawling is effective for selling garage door repair and election influencing. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian-ads.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/technology/google-russian...