Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by nilkn on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @11:24PM
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Even applying such retroactive analysis to determine the smallest set of people who could change their votes so as to alter the election result, that doesn't imply anything about why Trump voters voted for Trump. That doesn't mean they were brainwashed by Facebook, that they're all white supremacists, etc.
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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by heartbreak on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @12:31AM
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> That doesn't mean they were brainwashed by Facebook, that they're all white supremacists, etc.
At the risk of engaging in a debate I don’t want to participate in, is this not building a strawman?
When I purchase a product after viewing a targeted advertisement for that product, no reasonable person would claim I’d been brainwashed. One might, however, claim I’d been influenced by the advertisement.
Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by nilkn on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @11:14AM
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This should probably be a response to fareesh's top-level post. My comment was just to say that Trump's margin of victory -- however you want to analyze it or state it -- doesn't have any bearing on what motivated Trump voters and isn't even relevant in the context of fareesh's comment.