This same company was nearly asked to tabulate a primary caucus last week until saner minds prevailed somewhere in the Democratic Party, and the Nevada results were instead reported by phone.
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If Google does not already have their thumb on the electoral scale with these kinds of subtle interventions, then they should hire me to do it because it is almost offensive to the craft not to use this power effectively.
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The problem is not unique to Google. The same politicians give a fortune to Facebook to run their ads. But Facebook is also an antitrust target and partisan political donor. In some cases, they donated to your opponent! So how exactly do you audit a Facebook ad campaign?
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The problem is not just the potential for overt manipulation, but that a spam AI doesn't much like the yellow pixel in Jane Doe's logo and spikes her best fundraising email, tanking her campaign.
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Having the top tier of the economy, and most the world's technical infrastructure, run by an oligopoly whose business model is psychological manipulation poses special problems for democracy. The problem is especially acute outside the United States.
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I find the existence of an unauditable point of control with strong leverage over fundraising much more interesting than the specific numbers given in the article.
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I live in a whole another part of the world, and I keep seeing way more Bloomberg (the news outlet) ads than ever before. Wonder if Bloomberg (the candidate) influenced it somehow.
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Bulk emailing and getting you email in the inbox requires an email deliverability expert. Sanders campaign either made poor vendor choices or didn’t follow best practices. This is in no way evidence of bias against Sanders.
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agreed. and Bernie campaign sends hella volume. I unsubscribed after 2 days.
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