[FRIAM] tl;dr what's facebook hiding?

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Brain worms are more powerful than arguments?

 

I mean, once you heard that Hillary was running a child trafficking ring from under the cement pad on which a pizza parlor sat, could you EVER get that image out your head?

 

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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:02 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] tl;dr what's facebook hiding?

 

https://doctorow.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8

 

I'll give you the punchline:

 

  Maybe Facebook’s aggressive suppression of accurate assessments of disinformation on its platform are driven by a desire to hide how expensive (and profitable) political advertising it depends on is pretty useless.

 

I mean, we do find it pretty hard to change peoples' minds when they are made up, how much should we believe that advertising can change anything?

 

via hackernews

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