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That's my point, though – that wasn't true in 2006! Maybe, just maybe, I posted "Gregory is voting for ______" in 2008, but that's not how people used Facebook

That's my point, though – that wasn't true in 2006! Maybe, just maybe, I posted "Gregory is voting for ______" in 2008, but that's not how people used Facebook back then. There was no realtime location collection (no iPhones), no sharing of articles, no commenting on posts, no groups, no minifeed, etc. There wasn't any mechanisms for all the data to be used for targeting. When I started using Facebook, you literally had to go to a person's page to check on them. There was no newsfeed or algorithm or ads. There definitely weren't bots. It was pretty unimaginable that you could figure out who someone was voting for and influence them based on how FB was in 2006. Now, of course, it's different.

deckard1 6y ago
> There wasn't any mechanisms for all the data to be used for targeting. Facebook's original pitch deck from 2004 disagrees with you. https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-ever-ad-sales-pitch-deck-2015-9#the-level-of-targeting-was-extremely-specific-even-at-this-early-stage-5 https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-ever-ad-sale... Look at the slide "Our Online Marketing Services" and the box labeled "Targeted Advertising" > This site allows for targeted advertisement on the basis of any of the parameters listed below. Then, of course, it lists gender, age, dating interests and... Political Views. I vividly remember 2002-2005, and I even had a website once about disinformation. Fake news was a thing during the Bush administration.