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IMO, essentially mind control and subtle influence of people's decisions and stance on everything, including the outcome of elections.
by ngokevin 6y ago
IMO, essentially mind control and subtle influence of people's decisions and stance on everything, including the outcome of elections.
- simonh 6y agoI’m not entirely sure that he can reliably tilt the deck on Facebook sentiment, and if so he can only push it in very vaguely defined directions. In comparison Rupert Murdoch can exert very fine grained control on specific issues and craft specific narratives to be pushed by his media empire. All Zuck can do is fiddle with algorithms and hope the results tilt one way or another. I’m not even sure he can reliably do that. I think pretty the vast majority of the effects of Facebook’s algorithmic attention trolling have been entirely accidental.