The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
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#2Listening to Facebook is starting to feel like listening to an arms dealer who wants to sound remorseful.
Well what did you think the very targeted things that you're selling to anyone would be used for?
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#3Some regulation I'd like to see for social network ads, at least for political ads:
- Make all ads publicly viewable along with the targeting demographics. So everybody can see, for example, that a politician is pushing xenophobia to older people.
- Some kind of ad "fake news" score associated with a campaign. This one is difficult, but I could imagine a score based on a mixture of "fake news scoring providers" from across the ideological divide and news orgs.
The point is to give voters some transparency into what a politician is actually campaigning on.
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#4Summary below article title:
Three key parts of Facebook’s model come into play: gathering data from people in order to profile them, designing systems that allow that data to be used to target people, then allowing third parties to use the data and those targeting systems for their own purposes
Back in Nov 2017, when the senate was questioning Facebook, Google, and Twitter about the Russian ads during the election...
Burr issued a warning to the sites, saying they are on the front lines of defense for the security of the country's future, urging the representatives: "Don't let nation states disrupt our future."
I sleep better knowing The Zuck is on the frontline keeping us safe. /s
Re: The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
#5Listening to Facebook is starting to feel like listening to an arms dealer who wants to sound remorseful. Well what did you think the very targeted things that you're selling to anyone would be used for?
I find it so hard to believe that everyone at Facebook is just shocked now to learn the realities of what they do. Their naivety and ignorance would have to be off the charts for it to be genuine.
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#6Listening to Facebook is starting to feel like listening to an arms dealer who wants to sound remorseful. Well what did you think the very targeted things that you're selling to anyone would be used for?
CA did not rely on facebook’s ad platform-at least not for the part of their business now under scrutiny. They used the app API to gain acess to individual users’ data, something not possible with their ad targeting platform.
Re: The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works
#7Listening to Facebook is starting to feel like listening to an arms dealer who wants to sound remorseful. Well what did you think the very targeted things that you're selling to anyone would be used for?
I find it so hard to believe that everyone at Facebook is just shocked now to learn the realities of what they do. Their naivety and ignorance would have to be off the charts for it to be genuine.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it."
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#8Haha they must be referring to yesterday's version of the scandal. The appetizer.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
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#9Haha they must be referring to yesterday's version of the scandal. The appetizer. https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
The audacity is jaw dropping. Their spokesman immediately walked back all the claims made on tape of course.
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#10Summary below article title: Three key parts of Facebook’s model come into play: gathering data from people in order to profile them, designing systems that allow that data to be used to target people, then allowing third parties to use the data and those targeting systems for their own purposes Back in Nov 2017, when the senate was questioning Facebook, Google, and Twitter about the Russian ads during the election..…
Facebook treats people's volunteered information as goods-for trade. And business is booming!!
Politics aside, I wonder how this will affect the "Russian intervention in US and UK politics" search for "truth".
I am also expecting that UK authorities will be paying a visit to "Cambridge Analytica" and I hope we will find out the truth on what exactly they did for the UK Referendum, US Elections, and wherever else they "helped people decide".
Something tells me though that we won't ever be told the truth. E.g. let's say that there was no Russian interventios to US election and it was all Cambridge Analytica's doing. With Theresa May driving the attention away from the actual problems and into a "UK-Russia" debate about the death of a spy, it would NOT serve her political agenda of smoke-and-mirrors to clear Russia's name (just theorising - I don't take sides).
Ps: I remember a saying "live by the sword - die by the sword". How do people expect a spy (who has been uncovered) to die? In his bed on his 90s?