Problem flows from Facebook's business model & data surveillance & targeting infrastructure. Whatever the Russians did is a rounding error.pic.twitter.com/n4eIzdNEv0
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Problem flows from Facebook's business model & data surveillance & targeting infrastructure. Whatever the Russians did is a rounding error.pic.twitter.com/n4eIzdNEv0
All this is routine, and Facebook and Google are biggest players that profit from this—the infrastructure for surveillance authoritarianism.pic.twitter.com/HM13WY9nNR
Also, looks like Facebook doesn't really know what's shown to whom? They're modeling it after-the-fact? Interesting since they keep so much.pic.twitter.com/m7IXxR6TDI
@holmesJosh Anyone who's advertised w FB knows how big this is. Everyone else understates it.
This *functionality* you mean. Functionality means spying, manipulating data and applying predictive technologies.
For anyone interested, I've examined the power of custom audiences & large-scale data linking/matching in my report: http://crackedlabs.org/en/corporate-surveillance …pic.twitter.com/ZJvmDVo0an
Their program will fleece you if you don't have the research and analytics to target the market, and also these ads were widely forwarded.
Looking at the Facebook marketing API is pretty horrific, it clearly spells out the details of what you can target ads for.
@zeynep Tufekci covers this stuff very well going back many years. The Russians played us, but it's even bigger than that.
Yes, I know. My comment was comparing my own illogical results on FB vs. the laser-like targeting Cambridge/Trump & Russians achieved.
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