Facebook and Google helped them better target fear-mongering videos showing "France and Germany overrun by sharia law"—to get the ad money.https://twitter.com/liamdenning/status/920601343664054272 …
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It's not just the ads. It's the engagement metrics and the view that connectivity, without corresponding institutions, is an unalloyed good.
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The problem is structural. It's not about personalities. It's the kind of structures these companies have set up.https://twitter.com/dealbook/status/920459540730171392 …
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Yes. But it's public (can be countered), expensive, and not effective. FB & Google, moved from alchemy to chemistry. https://twitter.com/JeremyOwens_/status/920655640619515905 …
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Not just, but certainly many orders of magnitude more. But core problem is that we're the product—not the customer.https://twitter.com/JoeBeOne/status/920656918217220101 …
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When I say it's the business model, I don't mean they're greedily counting $$ from white supremacists. I mean it's the structure they set up
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It would be an easier problem if the problem was reducible to blatant ill-intent. It is related to intent, but in ways they set things up.
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Yes, no difference between public speech and surveillance-based, hidden ad-targeting + algo amplification. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/baekdal/status/920693640632131586 …
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This is about monetizing surveillance and attention in a submerged, privatized "public-sphere", not speech. Enough with the 19th century.
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It's uncomfortable and complex but deliberate misinformation may be speech—but it's often also a form of censorship. https://twitter.com/aaronhuertas/status/920692434119557121 …
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