They control what you see… and then what you think
They control what you see… and then what you think
Description
Big tech algorithms use personal behavioral data to influence public opinion and sway elections
Key Takeaways
- 1Platforms can exert subtle influence over public opinion by curating the specific content users encounter.
- 2Access to granular user behavioral patterns allows companies to deliver highly targeted advertisements that sway individual thinking.
- 3Algorithmic filtering can effectively swing election outcomes without the need for large-scale, overt political campaigns.
- 4The full extent of how algorithmic manipulation impacts society often only becomes clear through declassified reports years later.
Transcript
um there was reports that I think people said um because of the access that someone like Elon has and like all the things you're connected to Starlink and X and all of that or even we can see the influence that X had for example in the last US election and with things like this you can see like maybe they're looking at like there is potentially if you can get more access on a granular level you can influence people the type of ads you can send them if you look at people's behavioural patterns what they like and you know everything about them there's ways you can influence what they see and what they don't see and that might basically make swing elections in more subtle ways when no one else notices because this is like on an individual level it's not like you see this massive company and this kind of things do happen and we only find find out about them years later down the line and some reports gets opened up in some case and they're like oh the US government did this I'm like no way there's no way no way so even though it sounds cynical there's been things that sound more cynical that have actually happened um because besides that I don't really see why the government wants to know what everybody is doing like yeah I'm I'm I'm with you on this one