“Kim's research showed that in fact, these unregulated ads made up the majority of issue-based ads on Facebook during the course of her study. Facebook did not provide a comment before publication.”https://twitter.com/issielapowsky/status/985867497344765952 …
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All these ads could’ve easily been made more transparent and public. Many of us called for that for years. Facebook *explicitly* requested an exemption, arguing its ads were similar to skywriting—where disclosure would be impractical. That doesn’t sound like being blindsided.
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Facebook, like the rest of Surveillance Valley, has ethics that were born out of the dark jungles of Vietnam. Just ask
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This is like holding up at turd while your inside of the septic tank and screaming OMG!
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And immediately after the election Zuck starts a listening tour in...Iowa. They saw it happening and just let the experiment run.
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Well the whistle blower says Rudy Guiliani's law form explained to them they were breaking the law, but they chose to ignore the counsel!
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I've been saying this for years. My first taste of it was when I discovered that, for as long as she's had a Facebook account, they thought my wife was an older man: all her ads were for meeting women, ED and hair loss drugs, etc. It's all a big con.
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And often, a dangerous, stalking con
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Or maybe we need to downplay the risk and harm of "influence" through speech. This idea that conveying ideas and information to someone is a form of influencing their thoughts may be correct, but that's also the underpinning of a free and open society, not evidence of malice.
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matters because of deep systemic problems with market capitalism without which the ads would be meaningless. problem with some of the reporting is tail wagging dog. Political entrepreneurs will target their audience. The implications are huge because electoral margins so slim.
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