Author: Jim

NYTimes: Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature

Facebook’s Ad Scandal Isn’t a ‘Fail,’ It’s a Feature nyti.ms/2ykC0NJ

"The trouble is Facebook’s business model is structurally identical whether advertisers are selling shoes, politics or fake diet pills, and whether they’re going after new moms, dog lovers or neo-Nazis. The algorithms don’t know the difference, and Facebook’s customers are not its users.

Rather, as this latest incident should remind us, we are Facebook’s product. Our attention and eyeballs are sold to the highest bidders, whatever they may be peddling."

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