Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself
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#2I am a far leftist who runs a 500+ liked antifa page. I also only see the body armor ads.
Re: Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself
#3> "A few months into maintaining my Trump online identities, I started feeling that I needed to buy guns. I knew it was irrational and impractical given my lack of training and urban lifestyle. Nonetheless I was convinced I needed them. When I told my girlfriend, her perplexed response made me realize how deeply my mind had been manipulated by my pro-Trump Facebook feeds."
Exactly the kind of effect Facebook is selling, though not always firearm-related, of course.
The perfect advertising machine is a mind-control machine. It makes you want things you didn't want before with 100% effectiveness.
To the extent thay Facebook spends billions a year on building such a machine, we should believe that they have seen some success beyond a traditional advertising channel (such as TV ads).
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#4It won't matter. The cause and effect are reversed. They're getting ads because many are actively buying weapons and armor, fearing that the government is going to become authoritarian communists or something. At least, that's what I understood from talking to right-wing friends.
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#5> "A few months into maintaining my Trump online identities, I started feeling that I needed to buy guns. I knew it was irrational and impractical given my lack of training and urban lifestyle. Nonetheless I was convinced I needed them. When I told my girlfriend, her perplexed response made me realize how deeply my mind had been manipulated by my pro-Trump Facebook feeds." Exactly the kind of effect Facebook is selli…
Funny, when I read that part my reaction was "this has to be a joke".
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#6I am a far leftist who runs a 500+ liked antifa page. I also only see the body armor ads.
So basically Facebook is like, you and you, fight! Also buy our weapons.
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#7It's a weird thing since I have to imaging people that might buy that kind of thing already have it, or would be searching for it on other forums ( I have ).
Re: Facebook is bombarding rightwing users with combat gear ads. See for yourself
#8I am a far leftist who runs a 500+ liked antifa page. I also only see the body armor ads.
Interesting - can anyone else confirm this?
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#9This is not surprising or really noteworthy, is it? It seems to be some confirmation of FB targeting working as expected.
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#10Shouldn't it be "advertisers are targeting rightwing Facebook users with..."? I was under the impression that it was the advertiser who chooses the target audience.