The thing about AI enhanced propaganda is that it will learn exactly what to say to push your buttons and drive you further down a road away from reality towards something people want you to believe.<p>No one is impervious to this and I’ve seen many articles on both left and right that are completely false. We need to be very careful to do proper research on the likely correctness and fact checking of articles, images and even videos before they are shared, but you can go too far the other way if you try to automate this. Social media should probably warn you with algorithms if you share something likely to be false.
Why is the media acting like this is a new revelation? <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-cruz-president-campaign-facebook-user-data" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/11/senator-ted-...</a>
I really do think the momentum has become of Facebook’s demise.<p>Another side effect is that any other tech company (like Twitter) might close down their APIs etc even more.<p>One basic problem which I don’t understand from Facebook which could’ve prevented most of all this is: why aren’t the default settings of an account more secure and private?
I believe the "(2015)" label is intended for <i>articles</i> from 2015. This article is from 2018, but its contents reference 2015. Perhaps a better title would be "Leaked email shows how Cambridge Analytica and Facebook first responded in 2015".