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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017

      Brendan Nyhan Retweeted Kyle Griffin

      Quick: Name a Facebook ad you saw recently. The *principle* of interference is a big deal but for election $100K in FB ads won't go very farhttps://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/906119987173228544 …

      Brendan Nyhan added,

      Kyle GriffinVerified account @kylegriffin1
      Russian-funded propaganda posts on Facebook might have reached as many as 70,000,000 people during the election. http://thebea.st/2eR5Rcq?source=twitter&via=mobile …
      98 replies 57 retweets 176 likes
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    2. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017

      Brendan Nyhan Retweeted Andy Guess

      Thread 1 on what we know about Facebook ad effectshttps://twitter.com/andyguess/status/905902963281059840 …

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      Andy Guess @andyguess
      In light of reporting on Facebook/Russia, worth remembering what we know about causal effect of targeted FB ads 1/
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    3. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017

      Brendan Nyhan Retweeted Kevin Collins

      Thread 2 on why knowing how Russia Facebook ad campaign was designed could be informativehttps://twitter.com/kwcollins/status/906036902238629888 …

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      Kevin Collins @kwcollins
      Good thread. Let me add my own (as someone who has done research in this area, including a null effects finding on FB GOTV ads in 2012). https://twitter.com/andyguess/status/905902963281059840 …
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @BrendanNyhan

      Ads can be shared and affect future behavior by changing the ecology. I honestly think we don't have ways to measure this w/o FB plus panel.

      1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @BrendanNyhan

      Also, if FB ads don't work at all--and that is FB's defense--there is the issue of why it is a $400 trillion company. Can't be both.

      1 reply 6 retweets 21 likes
    6. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @zeynep

      They can work for commercial brand awareness/marketing at scale and not change votes/turnout much in politics with $100k campaign

      2 replies 1 retweet 0 likes
    7. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @BrendanNyhan @zeynep

      One doesn't imply the other, plus we shouldn't assume commercial advertising works either!

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @BrendanNyhan @zeynep

      I agree we don't have dispositive evidence but most of this is pretty murky speculation

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @BrendanNyhan

      $100k is what we know. $100k Facebook is not a small amount. Could effectively the reach millions AND also impact news coverage.

      1 reply 4 retweets 9 likes
    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @BrendanNyhan

      A good deal of this appeared to me to be aimed at getting journalist to write certain stories. And they did. Again and again.

      1 reply 8 retweets 14 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Sep 2017
      Replying to @zeynep @BrendanNyhan

      Facebook's impact is not an the ads per se but in the way it works as peer to peer socializing ecology. By design, FB ads can skip to that.

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        2. Brendan Nyhan‏Verified account @BrendanNyhan 8 Sep 2017
          Replying to @zeynep

          sure, maybe! but again, data needed

          2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Daniel Kreiss‏ @kreissdaniel 8 Sep 2017
          Replying to @BrendanNyhan @zeynep

          Totally agree, re: data. Regardless of effects, however, it also seems like better disclosure and transparency would be a democratic good.

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
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        2. Dobby Lessons‏ @DouxDux 8 Sep 2017
          Replying to @zeynep @BrendanNyhan

          And, as you said but bears repeating, one troll farm and $100k is hardly all that happened here. It's just all FB admits to as yet.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        3. Dobby Lessons‏ @DouxDux 8 Sep 2017
          Replying to @DouxDux @zeynep @BrendanNyhan

          After a year at least of lying and obfuscation. Why would FB lie that long and that consistently about $100k of ads? Doesn't seem worth it.

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