Thread by @OldCrowNest

IMHO, social media users across the board should be fucking incensed that people used their expressed ideas against them-to manipulate them-

Doesn’t matter, in this instance, what your beliefs are. The motherfuckers used your data...to manipulate a god damned election, and YOU.

My thought: if your opinion/s changed over the election cycle, what changed it? Was it propaganda? How could you know if you were gulled?

Nobody wants to think they’re gullible. It’s...embarrassing. But a whole bunch of us may’ve been/were gulled -to the voting booth & beyond.

We know they targeted bigoted assholes & used ads specifically designed to validate these nimrods idiocy. They also targeted the left. Bigly

Oh, I know- I know. 👋🏽 Lefty’s are too -educated- to be gulled. 🙄

Doubt me, but it happened.

I have zero skin in the FB bullshit. But *every user* should be SCREAMING to see the ads & postings that were targeted & how much they made.

See, for me, that’s the huge wrinkle. Someone paid someone else to scrape your data, then paid FB to tell them what kind of person you are.

THEN, they paid FB to insert confirmation of what they assumed your biases are based on your FB drama, likes, etc. AND IT WORKED.

And guess what rubes? Everybody got paid.......except......YOU.

Fucking hilarious, huh?

“Not so much”, you say?

Well no shit. 🙄

Truest truism ever:

Tragedy when it happens to me.
Comedy when it happens to you.

Well. It happened to all of us. You just didn’t notice.

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