Facebook and Google helped them better target fear-mongering videos showing "France and Germany overrun by sharia law"—to get the ad money.https://twitter.com/liamdenning/status/920601343664054272 …
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Look, these advertisers are American, the companies spreading this fear-mongering—Facebook & Google—are American. Business/workforce model.pic.twitter.com/ZrO5ESCz1g
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Samhan
Yeah, gotta sell ads falsely claiming that French students are being "taught to fight for the caliphate." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/Samhanknr/status/920652356462706689 …
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It's not just the ads. It's the engagement metrics and the view that connectivity, without corresponding institutions, is an unalloyed good.
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Does an institution necessarily mean human gatekeepers?
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