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How Close are we to Peak Social Media?

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 13 2018, @11:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the hit-the-hate-button dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

According to The Guardian, one of world’s biggest advertisers — Unilever — says it will avoid platforms that ‘create division’. It further threatens to take its ad purchases off Facebook and Google, if they cannot reign in hate and protect children. Their chief marketing officer says their online spending sometimes is "little better than a swamp in terms of its transparency".

If this finally is it, I say good riddance to surveillance capitalism.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:23PM (2 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:23PM (#637138) Homepage Journal

    If they respond to just one offer they're likely to respond to many others.

    A really good list consists entirely of names that have responded to at least one offer

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by kazzie on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:51PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday February 13 2018, @03:51PM (#637154)

    A fact that is also remembered by scam operators.

    (If you respond/fall for one scam, your details may be sold to other scammers as "easy pickings".)

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:28PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:28PM (#637204) Journal

    But that poor Nigerian prince said he just couldn't get to his money! I felt so sorry for him and the reward he offered to help was SOOOO generous!

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