• AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    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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        1 year ago

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

      • evidences@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

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        1 year ago

        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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      1 year ago

      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.