• AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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    2 年前

    The alleged manipulation involved creating an account that exclusively followed a combination of major brands and extremist content, then “endlessly scrolling and refreshing its unrepresentative, hand-selected feed” until it saw a confluence of the two.

      • El Barto@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        I know, right?! “The user has to follow our brands and our extremist content!!!”

      • evidences@lemmy.world
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        2 年前

        You’re probably more likely to see ads from brands you follow but there’s no way in hell you get less ads if you follow fewer brands.

      • dustyData@lemmy.world
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        No, you’ll constantly see ads from everything. The only limiting factor is that you block the brand’s account. Even then they were discussing the possibility of forbidding the users from blocking ads.

    • tory@lemmy.world
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      So the manipulation was just… be interested in racist content. Of course this shit is filed in Texas, no other state is dumb enough to give this case daylight.