Re: <nettime> The smog covering Facebook transparency

[Morlock Elloi <morlockelloi@gmail.com>]

Exclusive access to correlations between apparently (to those without 
access to data firehoses) totally unrelated data, and act on such 
correlations without bothering to understand why they exist (it's a 
fallacy to assume that understanding is required for acting) is the name 
of the game:

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/03/21/the-digital-military-industrial-complex/ 
: Nike and KitKat addicts hate Israel, statistically speaking.

So perhaps specific word constructs in seemingly unrelated ads (maybe 
dealing with fish and chips) can nudge a relevant fraction of subjects 
to support the hard exit?  (there is no way you can prove this wrong 
without access to data, and you don't have it.) The only way to detect 
these ops is to follow the money. The baffling part comes when you 
cannot begin to fathom why are they doing some specific thing. See the 
article above.



On 3/9/19, 09:57, Allan Siegel wrote:
> Hello,
> All roads lead to Rome, or the the CIA, NSA, MI6, etc. etc. What happens
> when you try to follow the money and reach a seemingly dead end?
> "Obscure no-deal Brexit group is UK's biggest political spender on
> Facebook / Britain’s Future has spent £340,000 promoting hard exit – but
> no one knows who’s funding it…
> <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/09/obscure-no-deal-brexit-group-is-uks-biggest-political-spender-on-facebook>
> happy hunting
> allan

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