You don't believe this is a big, serious, national problem? These accounts spent eleven THOUSANDS whole American dollars running ads.pic.twitter.com/waeFgC8Jgd
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You don't believe this is a big, serious, national problem? These accounts spent eleven THOUSANDS whole American dollars running ads.pic.twitter.com/waeFgC8Jgd
And what's worse, their "influence is spreading" according to this static # of followers with no pertinent comparison.pic.twitter.com/ER3mcFv8rR
Wonder what their methodology was for identifying “fake accounts”. There are WAY WAY more fake accounts being used for a range of nefarious reasons than anyone is talking about on ALL social network platforms.
Until they start allowing for outside firms to analyze their account data to find fake accounts, these internal investigations are laughable. It’s a direct conflict of interest for them to report any real numbers.
As I said, this has "facebook PR" written all over it. They could try to be less obvious.
That’s laughable. I can find 40 accounts in 20 minutes. As much as it pains me to say this, there should be some sort of oversight committee involved in these massive networks.
There’s certainly a problem.. at a minimum they should have to make their algorithms public. That way manipulation would be observed externally, and should be acted upon by the company for terms of service violations. This whole “idk what happened.. algorithms” is absurd
I disagree this is an instance that calls for top-down regulation, esp. because I think any regulation will just lead to established tech companies becoming more entrenched. But we likely have political diffs on the subject difficult to hash out over Twitter.
Just thinking out loud.. planning to release a thread on this later.
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