Using psychographic profiles of individual voters generated from publicly stated interests really does work, according to new research presented at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.The controversial practice allows groups to hone their messages to match the personality types of their targets during political campaigning, and is being used by firms including Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ to better target voters with political advertising with so-called dark ads.Before the referendum results, the concern we had was that peoples biases were being manipulated, either intentionally or unintentionally, said Chris Sumner, research director and co-founder of the not-for-profit Online Privacy Foundation, who led the research. Now weve seen this [research], Im as concerned as I was before.
Källa: Facebook ’dark ads’ can swing political opinions, research shows | Technology | The Guardian
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