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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by inflatableDodo on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:32PM (#19893948)
>This remains to be studied

I think it is fair for me to assume that propaganda does influence politics without having to commission a study on it.

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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by lmm on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:39PM (#19894424)
Why? Because propagandists try really hard? Because they spend a lot of money on it?
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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by inflatableDodo on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:55PM (#19894508)
History books mostly.
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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by Spooky23 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:53PM (#19894498)
The US 2016 election is pretty damn conclusive. Push a simple message to the swing states of the Midwest, and boom.
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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by JetSpiegel on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:41PM (#19895059)
If Hillary had not pulled strings on the DCCC, or she actually campaigned on those states, no amount of ads could have swinged them.
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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by lmm on Monday May 13, 2019 @07:35AM (#19898190)
That's the election in which one candidate massively out-spent the other but nevertheless lost, right?
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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by brycesbeard on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:07PM (#19894218)
the relevant question is whether it influences on a scale we want to stop. Treating it as a binary isn’t very useful.
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