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Like, Google is aware of the context of my searches and it always returns good results. If I’m looking for info on bash, for example, it’s not going to show me videos of street fights, I’ll get StackOverflow pages on the bash Linux shell.

Anyway: the thing about this stuff is that it runs on ACCURATE data. The worst fucking thing about data analysis is when your data is corrupted or inaccurate, and you have no way of filtering it out. It means insights derived from the dataset are 100% junk.

Now, other thing to know is that zoomers and millennials are THE tech savvy people and I would hazard a guess that the vast majority know how internet advertising works. They know about the data tracking.

Probably not in any detail but the use of fake social media profiles and fake emails specifically to make advertising data worthless is a thing going back years. So the troll operation in this case, by all accounts, used fake emails and temp Google Voice numbers.

And listen, people: you don’t know how fucking genius this is. I will bet a month’s salary that some poor database admin is now staring at a dataset of over a million ticket reservations that they were going to use to shill for donations and feeling sick.

Not even just donations: I’d bet they were planning on using this data to cross reference against other sources and do additional micro-targeting. Let’s say they were going to use it to ID moderates to advertise to them.

They might have planned to ID any Democrat trolls and just slide that particular subset on to someone who can fuck with voter registrations. Or cross-reference signals on location, and determine how to direct their campaign spending based on that.

Anyway - point being, they were probably expecting some level of trolling but not this. That dataset is probably complete junk. Any registration that doesn’t correlate somehow to known good information is now suspect.