Across the Visegrád countries, politicians have increasingly used paid social media ads to attack journalists, human rights activists, and civil society organizations.
While I’m not trying to dismiss the headline, this isn’t really news. This has been happening over the course of more than two decades.
In terms of financial volume the global advertising industry operates on the same order of magnitude as the entire global petrochemical sector. There’s an industry with the explicit purpose to influence others’ behavior and convictions - it’s literally a way to turn money into votes, favors and support - of course this is what’s going to happen with it.
While I’m not trying to dismiss the headline, this isn’t really news. This has been happening over the course of more than two decades.
In terms of financial volume the global advertising industry operates on the same order of magnitude as the entire global petrochemical sector. There’s an industry with the explicit purpose to influence others’ behavior and convictions - it’s literally a way to turn money into votes, favors and support - of course this is what’s going to happen with it.
It’s this aspect of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that got way too little attention.