Am Fr, 26. Feb 2021, um 02:29, schrieb 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List:
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> On 2/25/2021 4:03 AM, Telmo Menezes wrote:
> > With the mainstream adoption of the Internet, in the early 2000s,
> > political campaigns were reinvented (data-driven, highly targeted like
> > advertisement). The early examples of this appear to be Tony Blair's
> > second campaign in the UK and Obama's first in the US. Then it became
> > the new norm, with increased sophistication. At the same time,
> > journalism responded to the exestential threat created by the Internet
> > by merging itself with the nascent ad-tech industry, pioneered by
> > Google. In this new attention economy, the one who engages people's
> > emotions the most wins. We are witnessing the race to the bottom that
> > this creates, with widespread hysteria and irrationality from both
> > sides of the political spectrum. I think that Trump and QAnon are
> > products of this, and so is brexit on this side of the Atlantic.
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> > I think that this is not so different from the obesity crisis created
> > by fast food. Like with hyper-palatable food, we have not evolved for
> > an environment where we are constantly targeted by emotionally-charged
> > "news" that are fine-tuned by algorithms to be hyper-stimulating.
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> You should be pleased then with "Sleepy Joe" Biden, successor to "No
> Drama" Obama.
Didn't say I wasn't. I would have voted for him if I could.
Telmo
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