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Comment by dzink

1 month ago

Personalized ads enable personalized lying by advertisers. Politicians in the 2016 election would target voters for party with enraging content while the other got shadow posts that lied to them about their candidate in a way that would not be seen, to discourage them from voting (Source: Careless People book).

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