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- Sep 14
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Why do people consider the use of targeted advertising in elections to be unethical, while using the same advertising to push people into buying things is considered ethical? Personally, I find all advertising unethical because it is an attempt to exploit the brain's vulnerabilities for the benefit of whoever paid for the ad.
- Sep 13
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to me it feels like the entire email exchange is scripted. Would Zuck really ask a question that would end up in a lawsuit over __email__ of all mediums?
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Apparently they used facebook to incite backlash against the Indian government to bully them into allowing their Internet.org initiative to continue there (essentially a stripped down, anti-net-neutrality version of the internet which only allows people to use facebook and a couple other sites).This was mentioned in Careless People. It seems like…
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> but it's that Cambridge Analytica wasn't Facebook's fault (users willingly granted access), but it was their problem.In Careless People, they mentioned that this was a strategy they wanted to employ:They wanted facebook to become a tool for winning elections so that they would have more leverage over the politicians in power.For example, they…
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> brainwashYou have been brainwashed. Or was it Russia as well?Everything started much longer ago. You can't go along in life just assuming everything will converge to some whig paradise.
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It's part of the causal chain, but far from the beginning. The root problem, as far as humanly controllable things go, is the way we manufacture computer hardware. That's upstream of the centralized structure of the Internet which all of human civilization is beginning to mirror.Computers can't replicate on their own, so they need entire…
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I won't dispute that 2015-2017 was a turning point in many areas, but "cause of the political polarization" is a huge stretch. Political polarization has been going up for most of my life. You could perhaps put a start of it at the 1994 midterms. It was raging in the 2000s too.
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>but also in BrazilClaim: Brainwash was very successful in Brazil. Reality: The government in power for 12 years turned out to be as corrupt as any they had previously criticized, generating a massive institutional crisis.
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I wonder how much this relates to existence of Super PACs and lobbying in US.If campaign spending is strictly regulated, I imagine it would be difficult for such work.
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Man, if I'd interviewed with FB and even heard the word "integrity" I'd have started laughing my ass off till I was covered in a puddle of my own piss. Not a single person at facebook has integrity, it's been that way since day one.
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I think you're missing the forest for the tree.Data has made countless things worse.Data dictates what kind of movies/tv shows get aired, what tropes to use and what will sell the most. And we barely have anything but bland and dull super hero movies and troped milked IPs.Data dictates every website and product to be virtually the same and the…
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I'm pretty sure that is a mis-characterization of what actually happened: a 3rd party app collected user profile data from FB _through somebody's friend connection_ [1].The Zuck then apologized for this undocumented API access leak and FB subsequently patched it out of their platform. It had nothing to do with running ads. We shouldn't let time…
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Did you read the content here? This is really not about brainwashing so much as using performance marketing effectively for fund-raising?
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See this video for how Alexander Nix (former CEO) presented the data he had on every adult in the united states https://youtu.be/APZUrj8SN0M?t=297 (start at 4:55 min)
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I would date this beginning to 2013. That's around when Facebook feed ceased to be chronological. That's when everyone became rabid.
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To argue that Facebook somehow magically tricks humans into voting against their will and overrides democracy is to argue that democracy itself inherently does not work.It’s amazing that so many people don’t understand that.It seems far harder to accept that people simply voted for trump because historical institutions had failed them so…
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And in Europe too.Social media was definitely the start of that downfall. Yeah people used to spread misinformation longer before social media was a thing. But what Facebook changed was the way how misinformation could be targeted with surgical precision.
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Cambridge Analytica developed a database for The Trump campaign that classified 3.5 million Black Americans as “Deterrence”, used as audiences in FB advertising intended to discourage voting.We know Cambridge Analytica weren’t afraid to subvert the core principle of democracy like that because we have documents from their campaigns in Trinidad and…
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There was that leaked video of a Cambridge Analytica exec bragging that they came up with the handcuffs in the Crooked Hillary meme. Except that was hardly a big thing. The phrase Crooked Hillary was arguably “linguistic killshot” by Trump; CA’s little riff on it was insignificant - and that was them trying to sell their services with their most…
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When I interviewed at Facebook in 2019, one interviewer was on an integrity team. I'm not sure if it was his take or what the org settled on, but it's that Cambridge Analytica wasn't Facebook's fault (users willingly granted access), but it was their problem. Not surprising some of the same techniques got used by others.
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> [This document is from In re Facebook, Inc. Securities Litigation (2026).]It looks like we only have access to this now? If yes, this would be development and I’d remove the “2017” from the title.
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IMHO, that was the beginning of the deep troubles we are in right now, and cause of the political polarization. The brainwash was very effective, not only in the US, but also in Brazil.
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Zuk asked how the thing worked. Boz answered.Might be a challenge to some, but one can find out things if they pay enough attention to data.
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Mark Zuckerberg: "Cambridge Analytica" January 30, 2017