Brain worms are more powerful than arguments?
I mean, once you heard that Hillary was running a child trafficking ring from under the cement pad on which a pizza parlor sat, could you EVER get that image out your head? n Nick Thompson <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> thompnicks...@gmail.com <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 12:02 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] tl;dr what's facebook hiding? https://doctorow.medium.com/facebook-thrives-on-criticism-of-disinformation-64b141d7b6c8 I'll give you the punchline: Maybe Facebookâs aggressive suppression of accurate assessments of disinformation on its platform are driven by a desire to hide how expensive (and profitable) political advertising it depends on is pretty useless. I mean, we do find it pretty hard to change peoples' minds when they are made up, how much should we believe that advertising can change anything? via hackernews why -- rec --
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