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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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
Our politics is already corrupted by money and now, thanks to tech platforms, visibly corrupted parts are becoming.. secretly corrupted.
When I called for disclosure of political ads on FB in 2012, many Dems (who benefited then) thought I was a curmudgeon or a partisan. Nope.
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 these people can’t remember even 2 election cycles back, when Bush trounced Kerry on this front.
The Republicans were pioneers in micro-targeting pre-digitally. The thing see-saws, and eventually... money talks.
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