Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of...
by gaius on Monday April 09, 2018 @02:23PM
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Obama’s team bragged that Facebook was actively helping them in 2012. So we can assume that political ads that fit the narrative will be rubber-stamped.
Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of...
by methodover on Monday April 09, 2018 @03:52PM
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> There are so many other ways to "influence" people's opinions by distorting what they see on their news feed, front page Google results, etc.
... and Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter, etc.
When I'm discussing politics with friends on Facebook, at least I know I'm talking to real people whom I've met in person. This isn't true with most other platforms. (Except some followers on Twitter...)
Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of...
by pjc50 on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:54PM
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Facebook has a really annoying habit of showing you things that your friends have liked or commented on, which may not be from real people ..
Re:Testimony of Mark Zuckerberg – Hearing Before US House of...
by pjc50 on Monday April 09, 2018 @04:40PM
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There's a difference between targeting people who believe inaccurate things and presenting them with correct information, and finding people who believe inaccurate things and targeting them with even more fake news.
It's just rather difficult to distinguish between the two.
For instance (from Wikipedia):
> In April 2016, Correct the Record announced that it would be spending $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about Clinton.[1][4] The organization's president, Brad Woodhouse, said they had "about a dozen people engaged in [producing] nothing but positive content on Hillary Clinton" and had a team distributing information "particularly of interest to women".