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Yes, political division sells papers. I looked for the "opinion" label, which is used to justify this type of manipulation but didn't see one. It's an article m

Yes, political division sells papers. I looked for the "opinion" label, which is used to justify this type of manipulation but didn't see one. It's an article manipulating you talking about how Facebook uses a company that the GOP uses (and probably Dems too) to manipulate you. I suspect it wouldn't mention that some of these articles this company uses to manipulate you are probably published in The Washington Post, but that's just "opinion," so it's ok to say.

ModernMech 5y ago
First of all the word Republican does not even appear in the title of the wall piece. It appears in the first paragraph to characterize the firm, which is a fact and how they characterize themselves. The word Republican appears a total of 4 times in the entire price. I’m really failing to see manipulation or opinions. Can you point them out?
- nmilo 5y ago
  Don't split hairs; it says "GOP", same thing. And words in the title and lead paragraph hold about 10x the weird.
- Clubber 5y ago
  >Can you point them out? Sure, to me it reads like Facebook and the GOP are working hand in hand to defame poor startup TikTok. In reality, Facebook donates millions of dollars to the Democratic Party to ensure their operations and ... practices ... are safely legal and unregulated. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/totals?id=D000033563 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/totals?id=D000033563 I'm not certain how much different it would have made to the main thrust of the story to mention that it worked with a GOP firm. Based on the donations, I'm pretty sure they have used Democrat firms as well for similar purposes, if not this one. The author doesn't mention it, but assuming omission means it didn't happen isn't a safe assumption. Another point, not sure it's a realistic idea to paint TikTok as anything other than a data harvesting tool for the CCP. Seems like they would be similar to Kapersky in that it's just a spying / infiltration tool used by adversarial governments.
mbostleman 5y ago
I don't know the intent of the writers or editors, but I would think a political strategy firm is reasonably aligned to one party or the other and its alignment is totally valid context. I didn't get the impression it was overplayed here. I think what does happen sometimes is that when there is a negative connotation, as there is here, and the association is with the Democratic party, that context is downplayed or omitted entirely. Aside from that, the choice of a Republican focused group makes sense since the strategy was to assert threats to traditional values and appeals to nationalism / anti-China sentiment.

ModernMech 5y ago

First of all the word Republican does not even appear in the title of the wall piece. It appears in the first paragraph to characterize the firm, which is a fact and how they characterize themselves. The word Republican appears a total of 4 times in the entire price. I’m really failing to see manipulation or opinions. Can you point them out?

nmilo 5y ago
Don't split hairs; it says "GOP", same thing. And words in the title and lead paragraph hold about 10x the weird.
Clubber 5y ago
>Can you point them out? Sure, to me it reads like Facebook and the GOP are working hand in hand to defame poor startup TikTok. In reality, Facebook donates millions of dollars to the Democratic Party to ensure their operations and ... practices ... are safely legal and unregulated. https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/totals?id=D000033563 https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/meta/totals?id=D000033563 I'm not certain how much different it would have made to the main thrust of the story to mention that it worked with a GOP firm. Based on the donations, I'm pretty sure they have used Democrat firms as well for similar purposes, if not this one. The author doesn't mention it, but assuming omission means it didn't happen isn't a safe assumption. Another point, not sure it's a realistic idea to paint TikTok as anything other than a data harvesting tool for the CCP. Seems like they would be similar to Kapersky in that it's just a spying / infiltration tool used by adversarial governments.

mbostleman 5y ago

I don't know the intent of the writers or editors, but I would think a political strategy firm is reasonably aligned to one party or the other and its alignment is totally valid context. I didn't get the impression it was overplayed here. I think what does happen sometimes is that when there is a negative connotation, as there is here, and the association is with the Democratic party, that context is downplayed or omitted entirely. Aside from that, the choice of a Republican focused group makes sense since the strategy was to assert threats to traditional values and appeals to nationalism / anti-China sentiment.