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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by pjc50 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @06:25AM (#18031131)
The old version of this is "vox pops", where a TV company goes out and interviews random people in the street. Both are vulnerable to cherrypicking the people that say what you'd prefer them to say.
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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by tomatotomato37 on Thursday September 20, 2018 @08:35AM (#18031826)
At least with picking randos off the street you had to both physically make an effort to be there and could also only sample a limited amount of random population on a given day. With social media you have the ability to actively target super-minority opinions without getting up from your desk, which I believe has caused detrimental effects
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Re:The Deliberate Awfulness of Social Media by Vrondi on Thursday September 20, 2018 @10:03AM (#18032509)
They can just as easily choose to broadcast only the person on the street who had the wildest opinion.
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