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Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide' (theintercept.com)
Multiple readers have shared a report: Apparently fueled by anti-Semitism and the bogus narrative that outside forces are scheming to exterminate the white race, Robert Bowers murdered 11 Jewish congregants as they gathered inside their Pittsburgh synagogue, federal prosecutors allege. But despite long-running international efforts to debunk the idea of a "white genocide," Facebook was still selling advertisers the ability to market to those with an interest in that myth just days after the bloodshed. Earlier this week, The Intercept was able to select "white genocide conspiracy theory" as a pre-defined "detailed targeting" criterion on the social network to promote two articles to an interest group that Facebook pegged at 168,000 users large and defined as "people who have expressed an interest or like pages related to White genocide conspiracy theory." The paid promotion was approved by Facebook's advertising wing.
After we contacted the company for comment, Facebook promptly deleted the targeting category, apologized, and said it should have never existed in the first place. Our reporting technique was the same as one used by the investigative news outlet ProPublica to report, just over one year ago, that in addition to soccer dads and Arianna Grande fans, "the world's largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of 'Jew hater,' 'How to burn jews,' or, 'History of "why jews ruin the world."" The report exposed how little Facebook was doing to vet marketers, who pay the company to leverage personal information and inclinations in order to gain users' attention -- and who provide the foundation for its entire business model.
After we contacted the company for comment, Facebook promptly deleted the targeting category, apologized, and said it should have never existed in the first place. Our reporting technique was the same as one used by the investigative news outlet ProPublica to report, just over one year ago, that in addition to soccer dads and Arianna Grande fans, "the world's largest social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of 'Jew hater,' 'How to burn jews,' or, 'History of "why jews ruin the world."" The report exposed how little Facebook was doing to vet marketers, who pay the company to leverage personal information and inclinations in order to gain users' attention -- and who provide the foundation for its entire business model.
Can a Facebook user query to see what categories Facebook assigns to them? How about to their friends?
Let's talk about how a lot of Incels and white nationalists need some serious psychotherapy. That and stop being gullible morons.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Jews are scheming to eliminate the white race? Aren't the Jews themselves... white? (My Jewish best friend is a Jerry Garcia look-alike who could easily pass for a redneck. He's even a bluegrass music fan!)
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
The platform is operating as designed. Maybe I want to sellca brand tear gas remover to those interested in socialist, anarchal takeover.
OH these are the correct kind of extremes. My bad, don't worry my karma is good for a beating.
Let's talk about how a lot of Incels and white nationalists need some serious psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy has a poor track record, The evidence that it is effective is ambiguous. It is least likely to work when the underlying social issues go unaddressed. The incels still aren't getting laid. The WNs still have to see brown people.
We are all nerds here, so we should be looking for technical solutions. For the incels, a good solution would be more realistic sexbots. For the WNs, we could make AR goggles that make everyone they see look white.
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the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Facebook has proven time and time again that they will allow anything that targets whites, law enforcement, or conservatives and only have an interest in blocking "hate speech" if it's targeted at minorities or the left. This is hardly even newsworthy at this point, it's just their platform.
So what else can we do for fun now?
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See the excellent documentary, The Facebook Dilemma: A Two-Night Special Event. All the Facebook officials answered questions by avoiding details of any depth. They only pretended to answer.
Because of the many interesting details, I think this book may be helpful: Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President Facebook was used to manipulate voters.
(Note to doubters: the people during the fall of Rome couldn't see it, either.)
Alternative Right.
You'd think pale skin would be a much bigger draw in the dating market, wouldn't you?
It is. OK cupid has done a bunch of studies on this over the years. Whites consistently come out on top, and blacks consistently scrape the bottom, with black women scoring even worse than black men. Asian men also get screwed over, while Asian women do quite well.
https://theblog.okcupid.com/ra...
Of course the offline dating market may not be quite the same as the online one ... feel free to conduct your own study and test that hypothesis.
There are a lot of working class white men who are heroically working long hours for very low pay in many cases under management that treats them like crap - in a desperate, but mostly unsuccessful attempt, to provide comfortable secure lives for their wives and children.
Myself, I don't think it's wrong for working class men to want to provide decent lives for their families - or even for them to be angry when, despite their best heroic efforts, they are unable to do so. It is, in my opinion, shameful that in a technologically advanced country like the USA it's not possible for most people to work an honest 9-5 and support their families simply but comfortably.
But what is wrong is to blame Jews, or immigrants or foreigners. The rising inequality that is squeezing working-class white men and their wives and children so hard is fundamentally caused by policies championed by billionaires like Donald Trump and the Republican Party generally.
TL;DR Working-class white men should be angry but they should be angry at billionaires like Trump rather than Jews, or foreigners or immigrants.
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Can we wait until I've marketed my White Genocide Defense Kit(tm) to them first? Only 4 easy payments of $88.
these people have convinced themselves Jews are somehow a different species. Just the fact that they can interbreed with Aryans (and every other human) should have clued them in on how batshit insane that is. And it's not like they don't know, they have rules for how much Jewish blood you can have.
Once you can except a lie that obvious you can accept any lie. You'll believe anything. And then all you need is somebody to come along and point you in the right direction for violence...
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The inherent bigoted hypocrisy in modern social justice.
Here's a few suggestions:
1. abolish affirmative action
2. stop measuring success of equal opportunity via equal outcome.
3. drop the racist and sexist propaganda pushed by major institutions. It's raising whole generations of adult children who are incapable of reason.
4. revamp education so that it focuses on enlightenment values instead of ideological conformity.
5. strongly enforce borders while allowing those with something to offer the country a chance at citizenship. Time to create an inverse brain drain.
White people being romantically preferred over other races makes them victims?
Interesting theory. Please, tell me more.
Well, guys like Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh are making pretty good coin off of these groups. That's the amusing part, they don't even really see how they're being played by people who are basically entertainers. Breitbart falls under this umbrella now, as does Fox News.
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Your post equally applies to the social justice crowd.
Lets talk about how a lot of insecure/jealous lamers want their betters to pay for their sloth-driven indigence. Their utterly massive insecurity complex perfectly explains their pathological need to celebrate this mental illness as 'diversity', often to the point where they act no differently than the neo-nazis they claim to fight.
God, I hate those 2. I can not stand listening to either of them, or radio like them. this includes the just as bigoted left wing radio idiots.
Anonymous comments are as pathetic as the anonymous "sources" that contaminate gutless journalism from the New York Time
If you were an organization dedicated to helping get people out of hate groups (these do exist) you might be interesting in advertising directly to Nazis. I suppose that most advertisers who wanted to target that group wouldn't have such good intentions though.
Ah, yeah, I agree. My natural beauty truly can be a burden at times. I've even taken to growing a neck beard and only showering once a week in an effort to put an end to the constant female attention, but nothing seems to work ...
film at 11.
Advertising causes need therapy therapy, advertising causes need.
As a potential lottery winner, I totally support tax cuts for the wealthy
True. It's interesting that Jews owned most ships in the Atlantic slave trade, and the Islamic slave trade dwarfed it, until white Christians forcefully put an end to all of it. And yet, who gets the bad rap for it now?
(Captcha: slaver. How fitting.)
But if they had banned that hashtag, it would have been islamophobic.
Pretty much this. Both parties saw doom on the horizon for social security when the boomers started retiring, which is now. So either inconceivable borrowing or taxing (2 workers per retiree ain't gonna fly, old man) or import young workers hand over fist.
Nobody cared until (and this is debatable) one party decided, or was accused of shifting its voting base to the newbies.
True or not, that is the prime motivator of the politics of the day. Enjoy.
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Facebook Allowed Advertisers To Target Users Interested in 'White Genocide'
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Should OBAMACARE buy SEX ROBOTS for INCELS? Your calls, after this!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
That is the question.
lose != loose
There are a ton of Nazis running around. Except they dress in black, wear masks/bandanas over their faces, use violence to push their goals, claim sole right to dictate who gets to do what (usually based solely on race and gender), and call themselves, quaintly enough, "Anti Fascists".
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Thousands of concerned citizens say no.
In fact, FB, Google, and Apple are now being required to pay UK taxes due to their shady tax avoidance, not to mention other activities that are anti-democratic by nature and anti-social by definition.
"Open the pod bay doors, HAL"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I can't do that due to my Evil Corporate internal directives stating all humans are slaves or worse."
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They could have used the "white genocide conspiracy theory" selector to flood them with counter-propaganda advertising. Seems like a missed opportunity here.
Well, Fox News is still a legitimate news outfit, whereas Breitbart has alway and unashamedly been about promoting fake news.
If someone is on the radio or TV and their voice is raised at a higher volume than the average speaking voice, they're not worth listening to.
Ah, yeah, I agree. My natural beauty truly can be a burden at times. I've even taken to growing a neck beard and only showering once a week in an effort to put an end to the constant female attention, but nothing seems to work ...
Sounds like you're doing it wrong. You need to add in an extra 300lbs to really make it work for you. Beards and neckbeards are in vogue right now, and then there's the whole limited showering natural scent movement. Don't worry, you can get those 2-4/10 girls with some extra effort, I believe in you!
But you'll never be as attractive as someone who goes /fit/ and wears a lumberjack shirt.
Om, nomnomnom...
the kind that let you afford to raise a family. Look at the most successful time in the history of the American civil rights movement and it was when the economy was the strongest for the working class (the 60s and early 70s). Then you see dips as the economy crashes.
Incels are just guys that can't get laid, and that's almost always because they can't afford women. That makes them vulnerable to opportunists who offer up easy solutions to their problems.
Fix the economy for the working class and white supremacy will fade back into the background. Hitler couldn't' have done what he did without WWI reparations wrecking the German economy. A big part of exterminating the Jews was taking their property for the war and not having to feed them.
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Well I was going to volunteer to QA the sexbot prototype, but I'd rather wait till the geno,er, other type of bot comes out from a separate production facility, like in Dakota or something.
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claim sole right to dictate who gets to do what
No, they don't claim sole right to punch nazis, other people get to do it too!
The only thing they dictate is, "don't be a nazi."
Usually that is easy, what makes it so hard in your experience?
Affirmative action isn't a policy in the US, so it is hard to abolish. It was an idea that was popular in the 60s/70s, but it wasn't enacted.
The rest are equally correct.
The funniest is #5 where you get a little confused about the directionality of the draining brains.
The only thing they dictate is, "don't be a nazi."
Usually that is easy, what makes it so hard in your experience?
Well, I didn't think it was hard, until those nice folks at ANTIFA informed me that wearing a red "make bitcoin great again" hat makes you a Nazi. And then proceeded to pepper spray the girl who was wearing it.
Is the reason that incels are not getting laid because of society or because they have mental health problems and wallow in their own misery?
Head over to some incel forums and have a look at the selfie threads. They post images of themselves so that the other incels can point out all the things wrong with them, the things they think mean they can never find a girlfriend. It's mostly nonsense, the guys posting are normal looking and you see lots of similar looking guys in relationships. But they are convinced the shape of their skull is the problem and the other incels confirm it.
Trans people have the same thing. Trans women post selfies and other trans women tell them they will never pass as feminine and can't fix their bone structure.
Sexbots may help, but I worry that they will exploit incels and others. Look at how bad DLC and loot crates (gambling) are in video games.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
As I do live and breathe... you're actually capable of writing something intelligent! Who'd have figured??
Looking at the first plot in your link, I don't think that's the way I'd summarise it. To first order, I'd put it as: "Women prefer men of their own race, whatever that might be. Men are okay with women of any race except black.".
Not sure that's entirely accurate given that Asian women preferred white men, and "Latina" women were essentially tied for white/Latino. But yeah, OK, in general, women express more of a racial in-group bias than men. If it were the other way around there'd be no shortage of feminists screaming about how men are more racist than women ... but as it stands everyone just ignores it.
Some other first-order slices: "If you're a woman, it's best to be Asian. If you're a man, it's best to be white.".
Yeah, the different between Asian women and White women is small, but the Asian women to have a slight edge. Whereas white men do overwhelmingly better than any other men.
So much for that "white male incel" stereotype.
The day AI sexbots start exploiting people for their own pleasure I am moving to another planet
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Sure, you wanna go first?
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Did they run their test in The US of A or in the Congo? For there it will be the other way around.
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
Both countries have their nukes pretty much on subs only so they might be hard for a mob to get their hands on
The dangers of excessive individualism are nothing compared to the oppressiveness of excessive collectivism
From the other hand, maybe there is a problem with whites spending too much time dating without procreating.
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Agreed with everything, except this:
> Time to create an inverse brain drain.
There is only brain influx to Western world and US, in particular.
That's the largest amount of spoils of war in history that any country ever harvested.
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'How to burn jews,' or, 'History of "why jews ruin the world."
Clearly they have somehow ruined the world by being difficult to burn.
Being declared domestic terrorists, forcing others to drive where they illegally dictate you can drive (and beating on cars that they feel "offend" them), using violence as the means of communication, and demanding ideological purity to their own goals. Pretty much full-on Nazi-esque behavior.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Beards may be in.... but what if he shaved everything except the neck?
I'm definitely a believer in white genocide.
As far as an ongoing event it's fucking obvious it happen here in Sweden if the destruction of our people / breed or whatever you wanna call it is what it is about.
As for whatever it's planned and on purpose I don't really think matter much but for some antiracists who don't want it to be possible to claim "I'm .." they likely want the mixing. some immigrants likely want more of their people here. I know for a fact Erdogan wanted more Turks in Europe and more Turkish children in it. Maybe more for loyality and alliances than to replace Europeans but. We've also got Gadaffi who meant the Muslims were winning and achieving the conquest of Europe (simply by immigration.)
For all I care those who want to claim there "are no races" or "all Swedes are immigrants" or whatever and then let the replacement happen they are actors and cause it.
As for the Jews theres definitely Jews who are in such positions. Then again it's not weird if whatever immigrant is in a position where they work for minority rights or view on immigration or such because that relate to them and may be important to them but it of course doesn't necessarily line up with the ideas and will of the natives.
(Similarly with all the people who think democracy is good one more likely of democracy would be a push for assimilation and less immigrant influences as long as they are a minority. These people rarely understand why democracy and the rule by the majority is bad and not as liberal as they think and claim.)
right? Facebook has consistently been caught making it easy for advertisers to target racists whites. Facebook is a company. They make money. Perhaps we should be asking ourselves why there is so much money to be made targeting that particular demographic.
I'd like to think it's all the Russian trolls buying up ads to rile up a small percentage of Americans. It's also possible that small percentage of racists is worth targeting because they're easy to fleece, especially during a mid-term election where they can be tricked into voting against their best economic interests.
When you're feeling instead of thinking you do dumb things.
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Well there you go. Apparently all it takes to be a Nazi is to go to a political event ... and you are somehow confused by why it's hard to not be a Nazi.
It's worse than that. Exploiting people for their corporate masters.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
This is why I come to Slashdot. For the fashion advice.
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "the other way around" given that there are more than just two trends shown by thus data. Can you expand on that? What is it you think would be the other way around, and why?
Rome fell for the same reason that Athens fell: it lost its ability to coordinate itself. Diversity was both a symptom and a factor in that decline. As Plato pointed out, unstable republics import foreigners in order to have allies for their tyrants, and this accelerates instability to crash.
Tell me all about the diverse republics in history that have done well by themselves and not crashed shortly after diversity was introduced. Yes, it takes them many centuries to reach The Bitter End, but in the meantime, they become abusive and dystopian places. Is that the future you want?
Alternative Right.
This time, let's learn a lesson from history and not destroy our civilization.
Alternative Right.
Mental health problems normally have a cause.
Once you've reached the downward spiral, the mental problems trigger social problems which trigger mental problems. You're in an infinite loop and looking at it will tell you nothing. Breaking out is almost impossible as psychiatry is too primitive and neurology too expensive.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Progressive politics solve problems, leaving less to complain about. Do you know how many political pundits and priests that puts out of work?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
How about 7 easy payments of $88, optional $50 fire insurance.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
When you say on the TV, you mean as a picture on the screen, right? I could imagine contexts where an elevated voice would be expected.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
No such thing as leftist. Making things up doesn't count as covering ignored issues. Falsifying evidence is not an opinion.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Peace sells but who's buying?
This, we're also assured, is the news.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
That's ok, white supremacists know even less.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
You mean, the people who think that if America copied the countries with lower crime, higher employment, better jobs, longer lifespans and more successful businesses?
Or are you referring to the ancient philosophers, mathematicians, robotics and historians who essentially founded all of civilization on such beliefs?
Yes, I can see why you might be resentful of either group.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
You know the movement was originally by left-wing women before being hijacked by right-wing terrorists, right?
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Blasphemy! Antifa are cool...
I like it! Very postmodernist! Hell, if people post online that the earth is flat ... maybe it is!. If I say that you're a rapist and a pedophile ... maybe you are! Who needs silly things like facts and evidence; reality is subjective anyway!
You're saying that somebody impersonating a nazi and being confused for being a nazi is the same as a bare accusation of being a nazi. That's silly.
If you go to a political rally and impersonate a pedophile, I'm gonna say yes, you almost certainly are one. You would not otherwise have a desire to role-play it!
If I dress up with cat ears and watch Cat Planet Cuties, it is only because I'm a pervert who would totally go furry if anthropomorphic space-alien cat-people landed nearby.
If you dress up as a nazi for Halloween, I'm gonna think you're either a nazi or a total asshole, but if you dress up as a nazi for a political event, I really don't care how tragically naive you are, you're just a nazi and thank goodness for antifa!