Facebook's role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy

[bobiana]

Why is nobody talking about this, still? Is it too horrible to contemplate, or do people just not get it?

Until the algorithmic targeting of swing voters using illegally obtained data, unlimited spending, and zero oversight is stopped, it’s game, set, and match.

www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_facebook_s_role_in_brexit_and_the_threat_to_democracy/up-next

There’s absolutely nothing to stop this from happening again during an election period.

Update on the latest £1 million ad spend on Facebook.

Seems that perhaps 1 million emails have been harvested via those ads (in breach of data protection law).

Yet more highly targeted personal data collected by the leave side, via Facebook, in breach of the law, paid for anonymously, with no oversight whatsoever.

www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/apr/23/secretive-hard-brexit-facebook-campaign-got-1m-responses

Why does nobody get how big an issue this is...

censorship is hardly the way to run a democracy

nothing wrong with Facebook etc..

jesus, where do some of you guys want to live? how about Soviet Russia or something

Not FB, but hope this is relevant, OP.

Spanish media's acted wisely in banning fascist Vox party, which looks like making its performance in forthcoming Spanish elections even more flaccid.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/spain-election-latest-vox-far-right-santiago-abascal-excluded-debate-a8874741.html

Only thing which gets up the minority fascists in england is their reliance in funded SM and compromised press.

easy for other websites and forums to pop up - hardly difficult to do

and that's what will happen

banning from FB will just make people shop elsewhere -

I know many people don't have FBk accounts. They are quite resistant.

Youtube is great! Boy is it useful.

Once in a while youtube or google puts an ad up for a product I'm interest in. Probably about 1/200 of their adverts is something I could want to buy; of which I might click on... 1/5? And I might end up buying 1/5 of those, so the conversion rate is like... 1/5000?

What's the Internet advert success rate for others? Do you find that 0.1% or 90% of the ads you see are relevant enough that you want to look at more of it?

This intrigued me so much that I looked at my FBk & twitter ads... they are guessing many things quite correctly about me, but then completely not understanding what products I would actually want to buy as a result. Like presuming I must be fat and incontinent!!

www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/25/facebook-takes-down-far-right-groups-days-before-spanish-election

Far right anti women and anti immigrant Spanish Vox party gained about half of seats they were predicted to get in Spanish elections tonight.

FB's decision may well have helped.