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I have no reason to believe they ever stopped trying. They have probably tried other ways; mayhaps even more succesful but we are not authorized to know whether
by naringas 6y ago
I have no reason to believe they ever stopped trying. They have probably tried other ways; mayhaps even more succesful but we are not authorized to know whether they did... because appaerently it's super important that their actions are secret "to protect democracy"? (or something like that)
- booleandilemma 6y agoIsn’t social media a form of mass mind control? Didn’t facebook perform experiments on manipulating the emotions of its users?
- kgin 6y agoEvery A/B test is this, to some degree. Every ad run with variants is also. Facebook did specifically do a test to see if emotions spread between people through the news feed. They didn't create posts to manipulate emotions, but they did track people after seeing emotionally charged posts in their feeds. https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788 https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788
- xxpor 6y agoOne way to preserve democracy is to have an informational advantage over your adversaries, by any means necessary.
- swader999 6y agoDefine adversary. Feels like the security state is moving more and more towards the domestic side.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoOne way to subvert democracy is to have the ability to shape and warp the minds of its constituents, by any means necessary.
- Igelau 6y agoThat doesn't even sound clever. It's completely backwards.
- StanislavPetrov 6y agoYou forgot the quotes around "democracy".
- naringas 6y agothe only way to preserve democracy is to have absolute transparency of everything public.