There is one hypothesis that the various "this can all not be true"-pieces are ignoring: It might as well be that the "trait"-based social media manipulation techniques work best if applied to dissuade people from going to vote, but make little difference when applied with the goal of encouraging people to go vote for a specific candidate. This would fit the known data.
Thanks & Greetings from Berlin, Frank ---- > On 01 Feb 2017, at 17:26, nettime's_oceanic_feeling <[email protected]> wrote: > > < > http://littleatoms.com/news-science/donald-trump-didnt-win-election-through-facebook > > > > The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump > > By Martin Robbins > > 30/01/2017 > > Claims that social media data won the presidency are greatly exaggerated # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected] # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
