The only thing I've ever seen from 'targeted advertising'
Is a slew of adverts prompting me to visit whatever product website I recently searched for and visited of my own volition anyway.
I gather the same is true of political opinion.
Although what strikes me as particularly dodgy is politicians using targeted messages and relying on filtering algorithms to deliver one message to one interest group, and something entirely contradictory or inflammatory to another. It's been going on since politics began, but the algorithms that drive the likes of Facebook and Google Ads make it possible on an industrial, automated, and completely unsupervised scale.
Although one will almost certainly fuck it up on a colossal scale and send out a video promising to bring back slavery or something, just like Google Ads generating a 'Best Prices On Slaves at eBay' headline when you're looking up civil rights.
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks, Fri 23 Mar 2018, 16:52,
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