Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
by cgio on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:37PM
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But now people do, and it still works. How is this dissimilar to controlling the media in the past? Maybe can be more specialised, but superficially at least O don’t see significant content specialisation, rather the opposite, consumption herding.
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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
by fmbb on Sunday September 13, 2026 @05:49PM
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> How is this dissimilar to controlling the media in the past?
In the same way dynamic personalized pricing in the supermarket is different from supermarkets being able to set prices before.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" (2017)
by gruez on Sunday September 13, 2026 @06:17PM
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>dynamic personalized pricing in the supermarket
Which I also think is overblown. The one thing that people can actually agree on is that dynamically setting sticker prices is bad, but nobody actually does this. There's less consensus on whether coupons (targeted or otherwise) are okay, even though they have the exact same effect (ie. $10 w/ $2 targeted coupon vs a Dynamic Price™ of $8).