Social Media has Sold You: How Targeting Advertisements Threaten Democracy

[thomhartmann]

How business model like those of Cambridge Analytica are selling your personal social media data to create targeted advertisements

[erronis]

1. Are you reading this via Google's chrome? Or Apple's Safari, or MS's Edge?

Are you using an ISP (Comcast, Charter, etc.)?

Do you allow sites to store cookies on your system so you can log in more easily, retrieve your shopping/sex preferences more quickly?

Our footprints and breadcrumbs are all over the place.

VPNs help. Anonymous browsing (Tor) helps.

For most of us nothing is perfect but we can try.

Oh, don't rely on setting the "Do Not Track Me" flag - nobody pays attention to it. And do not click on the "Opt Out" button for a site that you have never "Opted In" - they'll remember you are a real person and will be back.

Oh, if you clicked on the video link in this page your interest has been recorded. As has mine.

[FreepFryer]

2. Not a word said re Russia. Is Thom Hartmann still in coordination with Russian orgs or indivs? (n/t)

[cbreezen]

3. Well, Thom... you should know.

You were an advertising person before you became an expert on adhd kids.

I just can't listen to you anymore.

ETA: I remember that years ago, you engaged in a conversation with a woman. She agreed to let you do so. Your goal was to show her and the rest of us, including me, how easy it was to get us to change our minds by walking us down a path that we would not normally take, by using certain words and phrases. Taking advantage of emotions, etc.

Think crazy trains and NASCAR patches. Thanks for helping me recognize the trolls that I see every day. Say hello to Stephanie Miller and your other friends for me. I don't listen to them either.

[Skittles]

4. WHY does he say "pro-life"

he needs to call it like it is: ANTI-CHOICE