Facebook targeting policy makers with ads

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by captainmuon • 5 years ago

29 2 5 years ago

Give it a few years and they'll be running "plata o plomo"[1] ads targeting specific policy makers. On one side there will be an image of a suitcase full of money, and the other an image of a policy maker's child with a target on their head.

[1] "Plata o plomo" means "silver or lead" in Spanish. Pablo Escobar would bribe government officials and law enforcement by telling them that they could choose silver (money) or lead (a bullet).

chuckee• 5 years ago

Facebook won't need to resort to such crude methods. They can algorithmically suppress positive stories about a candidate, boost negative stories, and do the opposite for his opponent.

Without a leak from Facebook, you wouldn't even know they did anything at all, let alone be able to prove it.

Story choice in traditional news media has a similar bias.

Facebook targeting policy makers with ads

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