Trump’s campaign is pouring millions into late-stage voter turnout efforts in Virginia and New Jersey, targeting Republican and pro-Trump voters who typically skip off-year elections. The initiative includes a $1 million-plus microtargeting campaign in each state and a surprise tele-rally '
November 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Trump’s campaign is pouring millions into late-stage voter turnout efforts in Virginia and New Jersey, targeting Republican and pro-Trump voters who typically skip off-year elections. The initiative includes a $1 million-plus microtargeting campaign in each state and a surprise tele-rally '
True, but also Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data stolen from users to create 5000 data pts on every single US voter in 2016, something earlier Rs could only dream of. Imagine what dark microtargeting and psyops they can run ten yrs later—time to rewatch the Great Hack on Netflix.
October 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
True, but also Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data stolen from users to create 5000 data pts on every single US voter in 2016, something earlier Rs could only dream of. Imagine what dark microtargeting and psyops they can run ten yrs later—time to rewatch the Great Hack on Netflix.
Fundamentally you need people to trust you, and microtargeting your policy positions like this is a way to sound fake and corporate.
i'm fine with a deeper focus on economic issues over social issues but man does plank 2 give the game away
October 27, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Fundamentally you need people to trust you, and microtargeting your policy positions like this is a way to sound fake and corporate.
And Dems had messaging like this too for different communities! Dems did massive microtargeting
October 29, 2025 at 2:58 AM
And Dems had messaging like this too for different communities! Dems did massive microtargeting
"L’uso combinato di piattaforme digitali, intelligenza artificiale, tecniche di microtargeting e linguaggi emozionali consente agli attori ostili di alterare il dibattito pubblico con costi contenuti e un’elevata efficacia operativa. "
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October 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
"L’uso combinato di piattaforme digitali, intelligenza artificiale, tecniche di microtargeting e linguaggi emozionali consente agli attori ostili di alterare il dibattito pubblico con costi contenuti e un’elevata efficacia operativa. "
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This 1 inc a lot of events, varied endorsements, a great op-ed on VP Harris supporting Black-owned businesses & another about how generational of a candidate she was for caregivers, the Al Smith dinner “scandal”, an Elon PAC microtargeting people with bigotry, a big update in the DC trial, & more.
Things happening about this time last yr re the Harris campaign (10/18/24):
Kamala Harris Grand Rapids, MI rally stream: www.youtube.com/live/_Usqss4...
VP Harris Lansing, MI rally stream: www.youtube.com/live/GyxD8jH...
VP Harris Oakland County, MI rally stream: www.youtube.com/live/V7Qq1mN...
Kamala Harris Grand Rapids, MI rally stream: www.youtube.com/live/_Usqss4...
VP Harris Lansing, MI rally stream: www.youtube.com/live/GyxD8jH...
VP Harris Oakland County, MI rally stream: www.youtube.com/live/V7Qq1mN...
Michigan Rally Tour with VP Kamala Harris | Stop 1: Grand Rapids
YouTube video by Kamala Harris
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October 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
This 1 inc a lot of events, varied endorsements, a great op-ed on VP Harris supporting Black-owned businesses & another about how generational of a candidate she was for caregivers, the Al Smith dinner “scandal”, an Elon PAC microtargeting people with bigotry, a big update in the DC trial, & more.
Reminding the room that Bolton was once a self-styled "cyber warrior" (!) who also hired Cambridge Analytica to harvest Facebook user data for behavioral microtargeting to make Americans "more militaristic."
www.engadget.com/2018-05-18-i...
www.engadget.com/2018-05-18-i...
October 16, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reminding the room that Bolton was once a self-styled "cyber warrior" (!) who also hired Cambridge Analytica to harvest Facebook user data for behavioral microtargeting to make Americans "more militaristic."
www.engadget.com/2018-05-18-i...
www.engadget.com/2018-05-18-i...
Het heeft inderdaad niet lang geduurd. Niet verboden dit, indien La Libre transparantie geeft en niet aan microtargeting doet. Ik heb alvast een mailtje gestuurd 😉 Als jullie nog politieke reclame zien, stuur zeker door hoor.
October 13, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Het heeft inderdaad niet lang geduurd. Niet verboden dit, indien La Libre transparantie geeft en niet aan microtargeting doet. Ik heb alvast een mailtje gestuurd 😉 Als jullie nog politieke reclame zien, stuur zeker door hoor.
Also: nobody builds power by microtargeting to what is popular! That is a recipe for being unpopular. Standing for things is popular!
September 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Also: nobody builds power by microtargeting to what is popular! That is a recipe for being unpopular. Standing for things is popular!
Sometimes the algorithm's microtargeting is *very micro* and I'm not even mad.
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Just .17% of the global population — around 1 in 600 people — has red hair and blue eyes, making this pairing the rarest natural combination of hair and eye color. Each trait on its own is already unu...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sometimes the algorithm's microtargeting is *very micro* and I'm not even mad.
interestingfacts.com/fact/rarest-...
interestingfacts.com/fact/rarest-...
We should definitely ask if people are being groomed to commit violence, though if so it will likely be in encrypted chats.
Cambridge Analytica's microtargeting turned out to be not effective at swaying a general election - it was invented for Ted Cruz, who flopped. But it can find unstable people.
Cambridge Analytica's microtargeting turned out to be not effective at swaying a general election - it was invented for Ted Cruz, who flopped. But it can find unstable people.
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We should definitely ask if people are being groomed to commit violence, though if so it will likely be in encrypted chats.
Cambridge Analytica's microtargeting turned out to be not effective at swaying a general election - it was invented for Ted Cruz, who flopped. But it can find unstable people.
Cambridge Analytica's microtargeting turned out to be not effective at swaying a general election - it was invented for Ted Cruz, who flopped. But it can find unstable people.
Its no secret microtargeting is happening, Facebook (Meta) pioneered it with Farage, Cummings, Banks et al over Brexit. Are we really supposed to believe that went away? Just because we live in a supposed democracy doesn't mean we are shielded from perverse outside influence.
September 21, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Its no secret microtargeting is happening, Facebook (Meta) pioneered it with Farage, Cummings, Banks et al over Brexit. Are we really supposed to believe that went away? Just because we live in a supposed democracy doesn't mean we are shielded from perverse outside influence.
Alternatively, is this a wedge issue. That is, after all, how the idea of "security moms" was used, among any other silly microtargeting segments. But ... what's the issue? Is someone arguing for prohibiting weighted vests? Or offering tax rebates for them?
September 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Alternatively, is this a wedge issue. That is, after all, how the idea of "security moms" was used, among any other silly microtargeting segments. But ... what's the issue? Is someone arguing for prohibiting weighted vests? Or offering tax rebates for them?
I'm baffled by this but it's a real thing on the D side. An election cycle goes by with no mailers, no signs, no outreach. Is it microtargeting of specific groups? Are consultants just eating all the money? What gives?
The replies here from people in other parts of the state support my sense that @mikiesherrill.bsky.social and the Democrats aren't really running an aggressive campaign.
Not feeling great about Democrats holding NJ-Gov this year.
Sherill is polling ahead of Harris's 2024 results, but not as much as Spanberger is in Virginia. The GOP attack ads all highlight some of her speaking flubs, and a couple are bad!
I think they hold it but it's closer than it should be.
Sherill is polling ahead of Harris's 2024 results, but not as much as Spanberger is in Virginia. The GOP attack ads all highlight some of her speaking flubs, and a couple are bad!
I think they hold it but it's closer than it should be.
September 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I'm baffled by this but it's a real thing on the D side. An election cycle goes by with no mailers, no signs, no outreach. Is it microtargeting of specific groups? Are consultants just eating all the money? What gives?
Dang, Zohran microtargeting the @rachelholliday.bsky.social vote
On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.
September 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Dang, Zohran microtargeting the @rachelholliday.bsky.social vote
Obama beating the dems in 08 with microtargeting broke their brains and we've never been able to recover anything meaningfully important behind hoping a strong minority coalition bails out the dems fumbling all over themselves in the hopes that the whites come back.
September 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Obama beating the dems in 08 with microtargeting broke their brains and we've never been able to recover anything meaningfully important behind hoping a strong minority coalition bails out the dems fumbling all over themselves in the hopes that the whites come back.
musk is a stochastic terrorist with a (paradoxically) microtargeting megaphone.
Why X has not yet been sanctioned for its open attacks on democracies outside the USA is beyond me.
bsky.app/profile/stev...
Why X has not yet been sanctioned for its open attacks on democracies outside the USA is beyond me.
bsky.app/profile/stev...
The destruction of the idea of objective truth is a shared project among authoritarians, whether russia, CCP, vance/musk/thiel's #NerdReich, MAGA.
Trite to quote Orwell, but it's still on point.
www.azquotes.com/quote/666071
Trite to quote Orwell, but it's still on point.
www.azquotes.com/quote/666071
George Orwell Quote
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which...
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September 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
musk is a stochastic terrorist with a (paradoxically) microtargeting megaphone.
Why X has not yet been sanctioned for its open attacks on democracies outside the USA is beyond me.
bsky.app/profile/stev...
Why X has not yet been sanctioned for its open attacks on democracies outside the USA is beyond me.
bsky.app/profile/stev...
We are all being played. You are constantly tracked and analyzed. Social media microtargeting algorithms show you things to make you mad - it generates clicks and chaos. You see crazy MAGA stuff, they see crazy Dem stuff. Ask yourself who wants to divide us. Who actually gains by doing this?
September 13, 2025 at 6:03 AM
We are all being played. You are constantly tracked and analyzed. Social media microtargeting algorithms show you things to make you mad - it generates clicks and chaos. You see crazy MAGA stuff, they see crazy Dem stuff. Ask yourself who wants to divide us. Who actually gains by doing this?
This is not solely a problem of policy enforcement, but an issue with the fundamental architecture of Meta’s opaque and poorly moderated advertising model built on surveillance, profiling, and microtargeting. (24/27)
April 17, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This is not solely a problem of policy enforcement, but an issue with the fundamental architecture of Meta’s opaque and poorly moderated advertising model built on surveillance, profiling, and microtargeting. (24/27)
#politics #disinformation #misinformation #fakenews #testosterone #hormones #socialmedia #microtargeting #propanganda #democracy #X #elonmusk #psychology #psychologytoday
Wild but true. Testosterone, the alpha hormone, can influence how we vote. It is often routinely targeted by hate, anger & aggression driven fake news posts. This was ranked as an essential Psychology Today read when it was released:
#disinformation #fakenews
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/po...
#disinformation #fakenews
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Testosterone and Politics
Could testosterone supplementing actually cause someone to switch their vote?
www.psychologytoday.com
November 22, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Here's the thing tho... propaganda is advertising. How can Democrats be so bad at it. And how are we not also microtargeting people using social media data?
November 30, 2024 at 4:33 PM
Here's the thing tho... propaganda is advertising. How can Democrats be so bad at it. And how are we not also microtargeting people using social media data?
Oh, I agree micro-targeting is worse. I read around 2015 about Putins man that invented the confusion method and ran it from 2000, and how it worked in Russia. It was a warning about Trump. Will look for it. Microtargeting not possible in 2000, and AI wasn't out, so I see those as refinements.
February 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Oh, I agree micro-targeting is worse. I read around 2015 about Putins man that invented the confusion method and ran it from 2000, and how it worked in Russia. It was a warning about Trump. Will look for it. Microtargeting not possible in 2000, and AI wasn't out, so I see those as refinements.