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Shadow Facebook pages spending crores on ads to target Oppn are connected to BJP

39 points by prhrb 3y ago

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
No wonder Elon is deleting tweets in India. There is lots of money to be made. Smart strategy.
villgax 3y ago
Ironically you can get rid of political spam on Twitter by ignoring tweets with any kind of hashtag. These accounts have hardly any personal content apart from regurgitation of the same image & garbage text accompanying it everyday on flavour of the day outrage....
- ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
  That's very encouraging. Douchetags should always be ignored. The sooner they go away, the better. They're a symbol of ignorance and a ridiculous technical regression.
  - KyeRussell 3y ago
    That’s a tad harsh.
    - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
      Somehow the entire Web was indexed without people going through their Web pages and "hashtagging" them. Hashtags are right up there with XML namespaces in the pantheon of ignorance.
jimsimmons 3y ago
A lot of social media scrutiny is US centric. Horrific things are happening elsewhere and we never talk about it
msla 3y ago
I get that it's an Indian source, but I doubt many people here know what a "crore" is so consider changing the title.
- jraph 3y ago
  I actually don't understand most terms in this title. It seems bad and shady but that's just intuition from the use of words like "Facebook", "Shadow", "ad", "target".
- vishalchandra 3y ago
  Opportunity to learn a new word?
- isuleman 3y ago
  A crore is 10 million. 1 crore dollars is equal to 10 million dollars. 10 million dollars equal to 81.9 million rupees.
jimmyed 3y ago
I tried understanding this article but I don't get what it wants me to be angry about. Is it just that a political party operates a bunch of Facebook pages where they share memes against their opponents?
- isuleman 3y ago
  It's more than a meme. It's character assassination.
inSenCite 3y ago
interesting breakdown. I would be further interested to understand the reach of these types of tactics in India and what the opposition is doing as well. Feels like a continuing trend of gov't entities quietly funneling cash and control into various media outlets

39 points by prhrb 3y ago

No wonder Elon is deleting tweets in India. There is lots of money to be made. Smart strategy.

Ironically you can get rid of political spam on Twitter by ignoring tweets with any kind of hashtag. These accounts have hardly any personal content apart from regurgitation of the same image & garbage text accompanying it everyday on flavour of the day outrage....

ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
That's very encouraging. Douchetags should always be ignored. The sooner they go away, the better. They're a symbol of ignorance and a ridiculous technical regression.
- KyeRussell 3y ago
  That’s a tad harsh.
  - ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
    Somehow the entire Web was indexed without people going through their Web pages and "hashtagging" them. Hashtags are right up there with XML namespaces in the pantheon of ignorance.

jimsimmons 3y ago

A lot of social media scrutiny is US centric. Horrific things are happening elsewhere and we never talk about it

msla 3y ago

I get that it's an Indian source, but I doubt many people here know what a "crore" is so consider changing the title.

jraph 3y ago
I actually don't understand most terms in this title. It seems bad and shady but that's just intuition from the use of words like "Facebook", "Shadow", "ad", "target".
vishalchandra 3y ago
Opportunity to learn a new word?
isuleman 3y ago
A crore is 10 million. 1 crore dollars is equal to 10 million dollars. 10 million dollars equal to 81.9 million rupees.

jimmyed 3y ago

I tried understanding this article but I don't get what it wants me to be angry about. Is it just that a political party operates a bunch of Facebook pages where they share memes against their opponents?

isuleman 3y ago
It's more than a meme. It's character assassination.

inSenCite 3y ago

interesting breakdown. I would be further interested to understand the reach of these types of tactics in India and what the opposition is doing as well. Feels like a continuing trend of gov't entities quietly funneling cash and control into various media outlets