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JCMach1

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1. More insidious. They gamed the algorithms
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:16 AM
Nov 2024

On FB, IG, TikTok, X... Etc.

With major help and consultation from the Russians who started this game very early on.


Remember this? https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-covert-russian-government-sponsored-foreign-malign-influence#:~:text=%E2%80%9CAt%20Putin's%20direction%2C%20Russian%20companies,effort%20to%20subvert%20our%20election.

Meanwhile, our campaign did not even compete in this space. We will need to deploy suppression and disinformation campaigns in the next election to put THEIR key constituent butts on the couch.

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More insidious. They gamed the algorithms JCMach1 Nov 2024 #1
Yes. That too. But that is not novel. Texting is. I think. applegrove Nov 2024 #2
Not new at all. I had access to that tech in my 2002 JCMach1 Nov 2024 #4
Are you talking about texting? Or social media algorithms? applegrove Nov 2024 #6
Referring to texts in 2002. JCMach1 Nov 2024 #20
Yikes. I played hearts online then. I didn't have a cell so I got no texts. applegrove Nov 2024 #21
You would be shocked by what they could do even then JCMach1 Nov 2024 #22
I worked as a volunteer during an election back applegrove Nov 2024 #23
I think this is the biggest issue and something that is going to be hard to fight against. Self Esteem Nov 2024 #16
Votes are still being counted DaBronx Nov 2024 #3
I think anyone can get data on Party affiliation and who voted in party primaries. Plus, one could target Silent Type Nov 2024 #5
But were the democrats texting republican voters applegrove Nov 2024 #8
No. I should have made that clear. Thanks. Silent Type Nov 2024 #10
good point. They could have been posing as Democrats ecstatic Nov 2024 #7
It would be twice as expensive but GOP had PAC applegrove Nov 2024 #9
They don't even have to be promoting outragious applegrove Nov 2024 #14
"More than 12 million fewer democrats voted than did in 2020" TwilightZone Nov 2024 #11
Thanks for the corrections. applegrove Nov 2024 #12
No worries. TwilightZone Nov 2024 #13
Pew. I look forward to seeing that. applegrove Nov 2024 #15
There are websites with that information Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #17
Anyone can get the info Blue Full Moon Nov 2024 #18
But big data will tell you what books they buy or video games applegrove Nov 2024 #19
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