Black box feed shaping is sneaky propaganda, making undesirable messages effectively unseen. We shouldn’t submit to it, or give credence to it.

European citizens’ media feeds in the control of a hostile country enables the slow, strategic destruction of Europe by trillions of unnoticeable manipulations.

  • @vxxEnglish
    1•4 hours ago

    Facebook’s engagement buttons are an important example. Using cookies, Facebook can track users across all websites on which a Facebook “Like” or “Share” button appears, even if users never actively click on them (Roosendaal 2012). This, in turn, allows Facebook to build shadow profiles (Garcia 2017), regardless of whether an individual ever signed up for a Facebook account. Shadow profiles allow Facebook to connect individual browsing behavior to existing and future Facebook accounts.

    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358488485_Facebook_Shadow_Profiles