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Location-targeting is the next level, yes. It's been suggested for decades that certain cultural trends are calculated and nurtured to sow division in specific

• wahnfrieden 4y ago
  Here's a random recent example from last month, Facebook still enabling ongoing genocide via hate speech in targeted ads https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/ethiopia-hate-speech/ https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/e... Not their first platform-enabled genocide (that was years ago), and still not doing anything effectively to mitigate it >This isn’t the first time that we have found that Facebook is unable to detect clear examples of hate speech: earlier this year we found that they were unable to detect Burmese language hate speech directed against the Rohingya minority. These genocides are not Facebook incidentally intersecting with the real world and reflecting its reality... These genocides, in how they have succeeded, would not have been possible without Facebook's implicit cooperation. Facebook's profits off the ads responsible for these atrocities, or conversely the lower ad revenue of these so-called second tier countries that are not Facebook's primary focus (I can find this reference again if requested), are a curious incentive to not eagerly take meaningful action