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This is interesting. It is likely worth diving deeper into some of the implications. On Facebook a lower price can, as this article identifies, come from a lot of places. But success at getting a click & targeting audiences advertisers are less interested in prob are at play themarkup/1321784136370130949
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The weird thing about Facebook is that where cheaper pricing would usually mean more general targeting, on Facebook, more specific targeting is usually the core of a strategy to lower prices on Facebook. 'More likely to get clicks' will also drive down price.
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But that isn't the only reason. I wonder if part has to do with who precisely is being targeted and what it might mean if voters who have a low value to general advertisers have a high value to Trump.
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Then there's the big question: is Trump better at playing the algorithm by writing posts users are more likely to click... Or is the algorithm pushing more people towards "engagement" that looks like Trump? ...
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Is he deforming himself for the algorithm, or has the algorithm been exploited by him? This is the big question because what it really asks is: did Facebook create the shape of the Trump campaign? Is it molded to metrics or an incidental match up?
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This is the disturbing underlying unanswered question underneath this type of reporting, one hard to know if we can ever answer: is Tr*mp a fascist by nature? Or is he a fascist because it's the cheapest way to get ads in front of voters?
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Or to put it in stark ad tech terms Is destroying America a really effective ad buying optimization strategy?
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Because if it turns out that the cheapest way to get your face and name in front of millions of Facebook users is by being a naz*... it won't stop with Trump.
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