{"id":2733,"date":"2016-11-14T13:23:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T21:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/?p=2733"},"modified":"2025-01-03T04:34:28","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T04:34:28","slug":"social-media-has-become-an-ad-driven-selection-bias-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/14\/social-media-has-become-an-ad-driven-selection-bias-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media has become an ad driven selection bias engine."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Image taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/graphics.wsj.com\/blue-feed-red-feed\/\">Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Blue Feed, Red Feed<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Social media&#8217;s revenue is based on ads. You can only make money on ads by getting a huge audience and keeping that audience&#8217;s attention.<\/p>\n<p>Show people what makes them feel good so they keep looking. Make sure they only see ideas that they can actively nod along with. Don&#8217;t make them think &#8211; or absorb ideas outside what makes them comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll sell a whole lot of ads&#8230; and foment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RM7red0qAsE\">intellectual tribalism<\/a> and hostility&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And if you are the &#8220;audience&#8221; it might be time to rethink how much of your time and intellect you allocate to a system specifically rigged to encourage bias.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. I strongly recommend you click on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RM7red0qAsE\">intellectual tribalism link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image taken from the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Blue Feed, Red Feed Social media&#8217;s revenue is based on ads. You can only make money on ads by getting a huge audience and keeping that audience&#8217;s attention. Show people what makes them feel good so they keep looking. Make sure they only see ideas that they can&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/14\/social-media-has-become-an-ad-driven-selection-bias-engine\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Social media has become an ad driven selection bias engine.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,28],"tags":[76,258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2733\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}