[Brain_Thief]

I'm trying to interpret your comment in a charitable manner, but no matter what angle I come at it from it seems disingenuous ("whataboutism" comes to mind, for starters). No one in this thread has pretended that disinformation is mono-directional in the political arena; what has been stated is that there is a disproportionate amount of disinformation emanating from the conservative end of the media spectrum and that said misinformation has been coupled to the process of micro-targeting.

With the premise that advertisements are information streams that are designed to modify a person's behavior, I have few questions for you:

1. Do you believe that advertising is effective?

2. Do you believe that targeted advertising is more effective than non-targeting advertising?

3. Do you believe that misrepresenting information in an advertisement is acceptable?

[cheese4242]

>there is a disproportionate amount of disinformation emanating from the conservative end of the media spectrum

There is no evidence of this though. Have you considered that whatever you have read to suggest that a "disproportionate" amount of disinformation is from the right is itself a disinformation campaign by the left?

Maybe another way to look at it would be: Nobody would give a shit if "micro-targeting" had been used against Trump. The hand wringing over all of this is solely the result of a humiliated establishment trying to save face by pretending some Facebook ads cost them the election rather than their own hubris.

I'll ask again, what evidence is there that these micro-targeted ads swayed a single vote, much less the entire election? At what granularity is it "okay" to target an advertisement?