Facebook and Google make money from a personalized, opaque information flow at a scale of billions. It's time for oversight and disclosure.pic.twitter.com/Yxynjwt11a
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Many Dems argued with me that data and data science would always be on their side... I said this will go to the highest bidder. Always does.
It's like the automotive before seat belts & emission controls. Regulation, disclosure & oversight will be good for the world and industry.
For the those interested in long-form, here is a peer-reviewed article (open access) of mine on all this from 2014. http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4901/4097 …pic.twitter.com/ja7aTdLQOt
On Facebook, Russia targeted Americans interested in "black issues"—to demobilize black voters or stoke white supremacists? Disclosure time.pic.twitter.com/KeQsDjZ2gc
Facebook's own study had found that a minor tweak in a SINGLE message turned out 340,000 more voters. 2016 election was decided by 100,000.pic.twitter.com/csWdU7etlf
Imma leave this from an old thread. Been writing about this for years. Nothing surprising here. All predictable, inevitable. Time to act.pic.twitter.com/RVxxqfRDC8
Here's a good thread. This is what happens when you build an ad-infrastructure and turn it over to politics naively. https://twitter.com/David_Ingram/status/905839178814033920 …
I believe CA does this for state & local elections. PACs have to disclose ads too.
One candidate had hyphenated Irish & Hispanic last name. Ads for GOP used Irish name. Ads for Dems & Latinos used full or hispanic name.
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