#microtargeting

[tomorrowusa]

When you understand that Republicans are not entirely cookie cutter, you can frame messaging to instigate division among the various GOP subgroups.

Data journalist Nate Cohn separates the GOP into six groupings based on poll responses regarding various issues.

In a specific state or legislative district you might be able shape issues in such a way as to make a Republican candidate seem unpalatable to certain elements within the party. Even if disaffected Republicans don't vote for the Democratic candidate outright, they may simply skip voting for any candidate for that particular office.

In Arizona in 2022 the GOP nominated a particularly dreadful slate of candidates for statewide office. They lost by several percentage points even while the GOP did passably in downballot races.

[W]hile majorities of Republicans side with Mr. Trump on almost every issue, those majorities are often quite slim: Around 40 percent of Republican-leaning voters support aid to Ukraine, support comprehensive immigration reform or say abortion should be mostly or always legal.

The closer the race, the more useful microtargeting becomes.

[aktionfsa-blog-blog]

Schmutzigster Wahlkampf in den USA

Elon Musk an Trumps Seite

Nachdem Präsidentschaftskandidat Trump in beliebig viele Prozesse verstrickt ist, scheint ihm alles egal. Auf jeden Fall nimmt er auf irgendeinen Rest von Fairness und Anstand keine Rücksicht mehr. Netzpolitk.org hat die krassesten Beispiele aus dem laufenden Wahlkampf zusammengestellt.

Elon Musk führt im August ein langes Gefälligkeitsinterview mit Trump auf seiner Plattform X.

Nebenbei spendete er 75 Millionen Dollar zur Unterstützung des republikanischen Kandidaten.

Eine von Musk finanzierte pro-Trump-Organisation verspricht jeden Tag eine Million Dollar an Wähler:innen verschenken., wenn sie sich für das Recht auf Redefreiheit und darauf, Waffen zu tragen einsetzen.

Musk gründete die Super PAC America (Political Action Committee), die von der Crypto-Industrie mit mehr mehr als 170 Millionen Dollar in den Wahlkampf voll gepumpt wurde.

Die America PAC behauptete interessierten Menschen Hilfe zu geben sich online als Wähler:innen zu registrieren. Der Button „Register to Vote“ auf ihrer Website führte in einigen Fällen jedoch nicht zur offiziellen Wahlregistrierung, sondern zu einem umfassenden Fragebogen.

Die Huffington Post enthüllte, dass das Future Coalition PAC eine zielgerichtete Online- und Brief-Werbung betrieb, die jüdischen US-Amerikaner:innen erzählte Harris habe Waffenlieferungen an Israel verhindert.

Muslimische US-Bürger:innen hingegen bekamen Werbung, die betonte, dass Harris jüdischer Ehemann Doug sie zu einer pro-Israel-Haltung treibt.

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Dieser Wahnsinn lässt sich weiter fortsetzen, wenn man alle Wahlkampfaussagen Trumps untersuchen würde. Wirklich gefährlich sind jedoch die digitalen Mittel - vor allem die Unterstützung durch Musks X/Twitter - wo pro Trump Werbung am laufenden Band abgespult wird.

Mehr dazu bei https://netzpolitik.org/2024/luegen-targeting-und-millionengeschenke-mit-diesen-miesen-tricks-greift-elon-musk-in-den-us-wahlkampf-ein/

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[subzerocatalyst]

did the internet gods just fucking smell that i bought the valve complete collection? i started seeing more portalposting on here after i got it

[keepitkeepitkeepitshare]

Hello depressive unsettling memes and writings from agressive third party hidden states supporting negative USA policies spoken out loud on tv coverage live around the world so it cant be unseen...

We see what you're trying to do.

[gwss200group19]

TikTok’s Algorithm

TikTok’s Algorithm and How it Works.

Like many other social media applications, TikTok uses an intricate algorithm to determine what videos and ads to push to a person's account. Unlike other platforms, you do not have to follow any of these influencers for their content to appear on your feed. The algorithm works based on likes, shares, saves, and comments. Although the people you follow can influence the content that appears, you do not need to follow someone to get their videos on your “ForYouPage.” (FYP). Another aspect considered when TikTok determines what is pushed out to a person is how long a person watches a video. The longer a person watches a type of content, the more it will appear, furthering its vacuum (Dias and Jeanavive, 2021). All these aspects of an algorithm combined steer a consumer down a certain content rabbit hole. 

A person can become a “micro-target” for certain content within a few hours, creating an “echo-chamber” of various values and beliefs.  While it may not always be harmful, it can promote dangerous content and ideas into young people's minds. TikTok has been found to influence users' social, sexual, and cultural identities and can influence people to want to change themselves based on their “ForYouPage” (Dias and Jeanavive, 2021), so if your feed is full of videos on the same idea, from the same person, or the same topic reposted repeatedly by different people, it’s not surprising that the person may conform to these videos. When such a powerful algorithm is combined with young, impressionable minds, it becomes extremely easy to influence them and mold them into a person that aligns with toxic traits, gender roles, and sexist behavior.

How the Algorithm can influence Behaviors and Ideas

Many different kinds of videos can be found on TikTok, and not all of them are concerning. That said, gender stereotypes are perpetuated within many TikTok videos and trends. Chapter two of Gendered Lives talks about how gender roles are social constructs that are learned during childhood and everyday experience (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey, 2020). These traditional roles can be harmful because it encourages men to be violent while at the same time telling women to be docile and to endure abuse (Allan G. Johnson). A theme in the essay Gender , Migration, and Exlie which can be found in Gendered Lives it discusses how throughout the world gender roles can be attributed to the reason why gender related violence is unreported (Kirk and Okazawa-Rey, 2020). When people watch videos on TikTok that have gender roles, it can cause an unconscious bias. This bias may appear as they interact with family, friends, classmates, and coworkers. Gender roles can appear through subtle trends and videos, demeaning jokes, or explicit videos that detail what a person should act like. 

SOURCES

Dias, Avani, Jeanavive McGregor and Lauren Day. “The Dark Side of TikTok’s Algorithm: Beyond the Dances and Skits There’s a Darker Side to TikTok. The App’s Algorithm Is Exposing Users to Dangerous Content While Controlling Which People and Political Movements Get Attention.” ABC News, July 26, 2021. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-26/tiktok-algorithm-dangerous-eating-disorder-content-censorship/100277134.

Johnson, Allan G. “Patriarchy, the System: An It, Not a He, a Them, or an Us’ (1997)," in Gwyn Kirk & Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Gendered Lives: International Perspectives” New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Freedman, Jane, Zeynep Kivilcim and Nurcan Özgür Baklacioğlu. 'Gender, Migration and Exile (2017), in Gwyn Kirk & Margo Okazawa-Rey. “Gendered Lives: International Perspectives.” New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

[lizardsfromspace]

If you're curious what Elon Musk's political funds are doing, apparently some of it's going to a PAC that's running these ads simultaneously; the first in predominately Muslim areas, and the second in areas with a large Jewish population

404 Media looked into it & discovered they're microtargeting the ads (using data from similar video ads on Snapchat); the former is running in Detroit suburbs like Dearborn, and the latter is being targeted in such a granular way they're able to target specific neighborhoods (in this case, Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill)

The article also details how they're trying to aim ads at African-Americans by targeting interest categories like "hip hop fans" and "basketball fans"

[todays-xkcd]

Hard to imagine political rhetoric more microtargeted at me than 'I love Venn diagrams. I really do, I love Venn diagrams. It's just something about those three circles.'

Presidential Venn Diagram [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[A Venn diagram with three circles.] [Upper left circle:] Eligible to be President [Upper right circle:] Would be a good President [Lower circle:] Unusually vocal about love of Venn diagrams

[Intersection of all three circles:] Kamala Harris [Intersection of the upper left and lower circles:] Me

[mariacallous]

[socialistexan]

This is why I have lost all respect for the Greens, it used to be their goal to build a sustainable left of center party through obtaining local seats and trying to get to 5% national to gain access to federal funds to help build the party out of anything other than total irrelevance.

Now their entire goal is to play spoiler and throw the election to a fascists who will accelerate enviomental destruction, the Palestinian genocide, and the marginalization of LGBTQ people, people of color, women, immigrants, religious minorities, disabled people, and really anyone but cishet white men.

Their entire strategy is to microtarget communities with a grift meant to sink Democrats (and win elections for Republicans, that's always the part that's left out) but only get them 0.5% nationally, instead of trying to get 5% to get additional funding to build on.

I mean, I guess some respect (derogatory) for at least saying it out loud.

[tanadrin]

Per election twitter, not only does the Trump campaign seem to wholeheartedly believe the polls, instead of funding or organizing any kind of get-out-the-vote effort, they have been focusing their money primarily on microtargeting ads at the demographic the polls have them ahead with (young people and minorities who did not vote in the last few elections) and on cooking up far-fetched legal challenges to the election. Although despite my original misgivings I think it is now incontrovertible that Biden dropping out was the right move--the relative enthusiasm people have for Harris and her comparatively high favorability ratings are hard to argue with!--I think the Biden campaign was right not to put too much stock in the polls. They got raked over the coals for this when people were urging Biden to quit, but Trump's people taking the polls too seriously has resulted in some really weird strategic decisions.

[foreverlogical]

There's a reason Elon Musk wants Trump elected this badly, and it isn't good for you or me.

[nrgnews-it]

La Geometria Invisibile del Potere

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A class action lawsuit alleging Facebook allowed advertisers to discriminate is set to go ahead after the Supreme Court of Canada this week refused to hear an appeal filed by the social media giant.

The case, which could include thousands of Quebec residents, will return to Quebec Superior Court to be heard after the Supreme Court of Canada this week refused to give Facebook leave to appeal a ruling by the Quebec Court of Appeal.

[...]

The Supreme Court's decision is the latest development in a case that began in 2019 which centres on the practice of allowing advertisers to "microtarget" ads to Facebook users according to their ages or genders.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[marithlizard]

I know this man's pure evil, and yet he still keeps managing to shock me.

[deepspaceboytoy]

“Hey can I have like a few minutes to myself where a company isn’t poring over my data to send me microtargeted ads?” “No, but you can have endless global war forever in the name of making this crypt ghoul named Smiggles Jimson IV wealthier so he can afford more trips to Child Sex Island” “Well can we not do that?” “You are a dangerous radical”

[mayasaura]

the way john's friends' original names are censored even outside of his dream bubble when pyrrha talks to varun about G--, makes it seem to me like not only is john hiding the names from us, they have been erased from the tlt universe entirely. rendered unpronounceable, or unintelligible. i don't know how realistic this is but like. did john just fully delete his friends' old names, do you think?

Nah, not literally. He literally cannot do that. Or at least. Hm.

Erasing their memories was a trick of the brain matter; a much more elegant and permanent version of what Harrow brute forced on herself to forget Gideon. If he were going to make his Saints' names literally unspeakable, he would have to do remote brain surgery on every person in the Nine Houses, giving them microtargeted aphasia for a set of words most of them had never and would never hear.

But. When we heard Pyrrha say G—'s name, we were hearing from Nona's perspective. For the effect we saw, he wouldn't have to have made the names unknowable to everyone, just to Alecto.

I think narratively the reason the names never appear in print is like... It is because we're not allowed to know them. It's too private. Even after ten thousand years, the grief still runs too deep. But you might be right about John having erected a literal barrier to enforce that. Much to think about.