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Anonymous
Honest question and not trying to be funny, but how old are you exactly? I had those symptoms long before Covid. It was called peri-menopause followed by menopause. I’m now post menopause, so it’s been a minute when what you described occurred. Also if you don’t want children, be careful. That’s when oops babies, I thought I was finished happens |
Anonymous
lol right?! they had no problem with it for the last 2 elections but now they do lol, I can't. |
Anonymous
Aiding and abetting crimes and violence and ignoring it for profit is not “free speech”, moron. It irresponsible corporate greed. |
Anonymous
If you think you can make a case for aiding and abetting, I suggest you take that case forward. |
Anonymous
Man watching MAGA aholes make political hay out of a once in a century fire has been so totally unsurprising. |
Anonymous
Dp- I’m sure a case could absolutely be made. I would have loved for the them to lose their 230 protection and face actual subpoenas during the last administration. But Biden didn’t do anything to them. Our government has been completely unable to grapple with technology and we are a poorer, sicker, and angrier nation for it. |
Anonymous
stop using google for anything. not searched not email. Do not use google. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
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I posted this on the other thread and wanted to move it here.
I've run FB ads for the last 5 years and have trained under some of the top in the industry. As part of the curriculum, often we'd look at what Trump did during the 2016 election - which was brilliant from a marketing and persuasion standpoint but highly unethical. Cambridge Analytica harvest data from nearly 100 million FB users without consent and used that data for Trump's campaign in the 2016 election and build a psychologic and demographic profile for each voter - not just their political beliefs, but other beliefs, interests, even behaviors (like we can tell if someone likes to watch videos, click on links, write comments, etc and design ads catered to those behaviors). They then used this data to run tens of thousands of ads *per day* to see what messages work with which groups. Often we tweak images, headlines, wording, etc. Even to the point where they'll take 20 different actors, have them give the same message, and see which actor people like best. This is called micro targeting and A/B testing. They're standard practice in digital marketing, but obviously to get to the point where you are running tens of thousands of ads per day, you need insane amounts of money, which is where campaign financing and donations come in (because the average person can't do this). And obviously, somebody who has the ability to raise this amount of money will very easily be able to get a large voter base from Facebook because of the way they slowly use propaganda to persuade people. In marketing terms we call this a funnel, but it works the same. You align with somebody over a belief they already have, then slowly send them more and more content that starts to shape their beliefs in other things. This is why there are such strong pipelines from health, finance, relationships, etc to the far right: You start with a reasonable belief (XYZ diet is healthy, here's how to lose weight and get healthy, etc) then slowly introduce other ideas such as anti-vaxx (if you eat this diet you're so healthy you don't need vaccines!), introduce the concept of Big Pharma is out to get you, and so on. Zuckerberg had to testify before Congress because of the illegal data harvesting, and FB put things like fact-checking and stricter data access in place to cover his butt. But ads are FB's source of revenue - they made $800 million from political ads in 2020 alone - so obviously they want to continue political ads even though it's highly unethical. Now that Trump is in office, I suspect Zuck is being offered protection in exchange for other right-wing campaigns to have "free speech". Or at the very least, knows that a conservative-controlled government won't come after him. Which is extremely scary, because a massive amount of the right's campaign strategy is to spread misinformation and create outrage over things that aren't actually problems. Sadly the average American doesn't stand a chance. Marketing is a trap that is intentionally set for you and there's no real way around it. Add in AI-generated images and it's terrifying; I see AI-generated images on FB daily where thousands of people comment not realizing it's fake. Very scary time to be in the U.S. |
Anonymous
What? Do you think what you wrote makes any sense? MORON. |
Anonymous
lol lol 
SMH. |
Anonymous
You two obviously know nothing about what they’ve allowed and ignored. Ignorance is bliss. |
Anonymous
Eventually the mind-control/disinformation billionaires like Zuckerburg will be regarded as Josef Mengele was after WW2, using science to destroy humanity. And hopefully they'll get the same fate. |
Anonymous
NP. Half the aholes I hear as a Californian are extreme leftists eager to kick elderly people out of their destroyed lifelong homes and openly celebrating the destruction. The other half are MAGA, agreed, but the political haymaking is not limited to MAGA. |
Anonymous
| Zuck knew Instagram was being used for human slave trading and did nothing. |