@taz
seit #KI und #microtargeting Einzug gehalten haben in die üblichen #socialmedia kann ich die Entscheidung in Australien verstehenden.
Gerade diese Altersgruppe wir hier bei uns ja massiv von der #AFD bespielt.
Besser wäre es gewesen, eine kontrollierte Umgebung wie das #fediverse anzubieten.

@barbarakathmann Vergeet dan ook niet mee te nemen dat #groenlinkspvda zeer recentelijk nog #microtargeting inzette op Instagram en FB om potentiele kiezers onbewust te beinvloeden, een praktijk die afgelopen week verboden is. Hiervoor worden privacygevoelige gegevens gebruikt. https://nos.nl/collectie/14002/artikel/2586030-politieke-partijen-gaven-vlak-voor-verbod-nog-tienduizenden-euro-s-uit-op-sociale-media

Dus ja….goed idee dat AI deltaplan, óók om toekomstig misbruik door jouw partij te voorkomen! #pvda #groenlinks #privacy

Geen politieke ads meer? 🤔
Vandaag is het verbod op politieke advertenties op social media ingegaan. Partijen gebruikten tot het laatst 'micro-targeting' om jou te bereiken.

Neem zélf de controle! 🧐 Duik in je privacy-instellingen en pas je advertentievoorkeuren aan. 🔒

Check jij die weleens?

#Privacy #Microtargeting

Bill C-4 privacy enhancements are modest and fail to regulate politicians’ use of social bots
#Canada #BillC4 #Privacy #DigitalRights #Politics #SocialBots #AI #DataPrivacy #Elections #Democracy #SocialMedia #MicroTargeting #OnlineManipulation #BigData
https://the-14.com/bill-c-4-privacy-enhancements-are-modest-and-fail-to-regulate-politicians-use-of-social-bot/

De promotie van geweld tegen vrouwen en sexueel misbruik door #Meta.

Laatst had ik nog een discussie over het gevaar van het delen van privegegevens op #socialemedia en met #chatbots. Dat #microtargeting een enorme invloed zal hebben op hoe de wereld door de slachtoffers wordt gezien. Bijna zonder uitzondering wordt mij te kennen gegeven dat ik overdrijf, dat er wat met mij aan de hand is, dat ik mij zoveel zorgen maak.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man

LinkedIn gaat ook AI trainen met je informatie. Hier kun je het uitzetten. https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-ai-improvement

#privacy #ai #datamining #metadata #microtargeting

🔬| Wie könnte in #Zukunft unsere Wahlentscheidung beeinflusst werden?

Sicher auch für die Älteren interessant:

In einem Beitrag für die #YoungSkeptix-Beitrag beschreibt Rowena wie Parteien in Zukunft für jede Person zugeschnittene #Wahlwerbung schnell und einfach durch #KI erstellen lassen können und wie man sich selbst vor dieser #Manipulation schützen kann.

https://skeptix.org/2025/09/11/wie-koennte-in-zukunft-unsere-wahlentscheidung-beeinflusst-werden/

#AI #Wahlen #NRW #microtargeting #nrwwahl

"Prominent voices worry that generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) will negatively impact elections worldwide and trigger a misinformation apocalypse. A recurrent fear is that GenAI will make it easier to influence voters and facilitate the creation and dissemination of potent mis- and disinformation. We argue that despite the incredible capabilities of GenAI systems, their influence on election outcomes has been overestimated. Looking back at 2024, the predicted outsized effects of GenAI did not happen and were overshadowed by traditional sources of influence. We review current evidence on the impact of GenAI in the 2024 elections and identify several reasons why the impact of GenAI on elections has been overblown. These include the inherent challenges of mass persuasion, the complexity of media effects and people’s interaction with technology, the difficulty of reaching target audiences, and the limited effectiveness of AI-driven microtargeting in political campaigns. Additionally, we argue that the socioeconomic, cultural, and personal factors that shape voting behavior outweigh the influence of AI-generated content. We further analyze the bifurcated discourse on GenAI’s role in elections, framing it as part of the ongoing “cycle of technology panics.” While acknowledging AI’s risks, such as amplifying social inequalities, we argue that focusing on AI distracts from more structural threats to elections and democracy, including voter disenfranchisement and attacks on election integrity. The paper calls for a recalibration of the narratives around AI and elections, proposing a nuanced approach that considers AI within broader sociopolitical contexts."

https://knightcolumbia.org/content/dont-panic-yet-assessing-the-evidence-and-discourse-around-generative-ai-and-elections

#AI #GenerativeAI #Disinformation #Elections #Politics #Misinformation #MassPersuasion #Microtargeting #MediaEffects

Ja Ja, der Datenschutz
Datenschutz ist der dünne Lack zwischen Profiling Microtargeting und Nudging es ist der minimale Schutz vor Stalking Doxing Identitätsdiebstahl.
Datenschutz stört, wenn ein Dienst/ App nur einen Collateralnutzen für die User ins Schaufenster stellt, aber im Kern die Interessen von Politik, Staat und Wirtschaft bedienen soll. Das Märchen von der Fortschrittsbremse.

#fortschrittsbremse #datenschutz #bsi #microtargeting #nudging

@z3r0fox

"the whole AI is a scam ... is not inevitable ... is based upon illegal behavior ... they married their rapist ... we don't make deals with OpenAI" Corole Cadwalladr

#AI #microtargeting #cambridgeAnalytica #KI #bildung #techfascism

New paper:

‘Issue ownership in the online campaign for Dutch general elections: A topic modeling approach.’

By Joren Vrancken, Tom Dobber, and me.

Journal of Digital Social Research, open access.

https://publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/view/54885

#politics #law #elections #netherlands #microtargeting #dsa #tech #advertising #meta #Facebook

There is little research on #microtargeting ads so far. Mona Krewel & Jeanelle Frontin researched their impact in U.S. presidential #elections with the Meta Ad Data Set. They show that surprisingly not gender, age or location are used for targeting, but a persons interests instead. #WIConf2025

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A manipulation technique also known as "microtargeting": "a type of personalised communication that involves collecting information about people, and using that information to show them targeted political advertisements" [3].

[3] on #microtargeting:
- "it exploits personal data [...]
- conceals its true nature [...]
- allows [...] to make incompatible promises to different segments of the electorate". Potentially targeting #CognitiveBiases by opaque/foreign #misinformation & #disinformation

Important #UK #petition to sign: "Ban behavioural data extraction for advertising"

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/713456

If you are a UK citizen or UK resident PLEASE SIGN THIS 🙏🏼

We need the #government to take this seriously so creeps like this #databroker don't get more data:
https://gizmodo.com/data-broker-brags-about-having-highly-detailed-personal-information-on-nearly-all-internet-users-2000575762

And #democracy is undermined by the #microtargeting from #socialmedia - #Trump /Brexit/Romania etc

#surveillancecapitalism #dataprivacy #advertising #RTB #databreach #infosec #uspol #data #selfhosting

This is what we're up against. Fact-free CERTAINTY from #MAGA muppets:

https://x.com/MAGACult2/status/1896539648089903507

Their echo chamber is fueled by right wing news outlets, but the real division was sown a while ago by #algorighmic #socialmedia and #microtargeting

#bigtech didn't use 'divide and conquer', they used 'atomise and conquer' 😒

And meanwhile the masses are cooperating in their own surveillance by feeding #surveillancecapitalism

Any suggestions for how to bring people back to the 'shared centre'?

@OmasgR Weil ihr einen Mastodon-Account bei #Digitalcourage habt, interessiert es euch vielleicht, dass Digitalcourage die Leute, bei denen ihr eure "Petition" untergebracht habt, vor 9 Jahren einen mit einem #BigBrotherAward geächtet hat: https://bigbrotherawards.de/2016/changeorg

Damals waren die #innnit-Leute noch der deutsche Arm von #changeOrg. Inzwischen wird change.org in Deutschland von einem anderen Team gemacht.

Ich fand die Laudatio für diesen Negativpreis nicht besonders gelungen. Die Preisvergabe war umstritten. Ich halte sie aber immer noch für gerechtfertigt, weil ich damals bei meinen Recherchen darauf stieß, dass change.org damit warb, Daten der Mitzeichnenden schön als Profil aufbereitet an Interessierte zu verkaufen, z.B. für #Microtargeting im britischen Wahlkampf. Nach der Preisvergabe gelobte change.org, damit aufzuhören. Warum sich Innnit später selbständig gemacht hat, ist mir nicht bekannt.

Belege: https://archive.fo/diZhm

ICYMI: Microtargeting practices raise privacy concerns ahead of snap election: Investigation reveals political parties continue using personal data for targeted ads despite legal questions. https://ppc.land/microtargeting-practices-raise-privacy-concerns-ahead-of-snap-election/ #Microtargeting #PrivacyConcerns #SnapElection #DataPrivacy #PoliticalAds

Danke @janboehm

Nachdem die Thematik niemandem in meinem Umfeld bewusst war, zweifelte ich langsam selbst daran und begann schon damit, mich auf Verschwörungstheorien zu challengen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzfVjgZKjro

#microtargeting #wahlen

In 2025 #microtargeting and #personalisedads have been so successful it's less 'divide and conquer' and now more like 'ATOMISE AND CONQUER' 😒

#surveillancecapitalism #threattodemocracy #rtb

We are isolated and weak in our information bubbles. No shared reality = no coordinated fight back. Are you going to let that happen?

Let's hope the orgs can rally us: @eff @noybeu @privacyint @corporateeurope @edri #ThePeopleVsBigTech

ICYMI: Microtargeting practices raise privacy concerns ahead of snap election: Investigation reveals political parties continue using personal data for targeted ads despite legal questions. https://ppc.land/microtargeting-practices-raise-privacy-concerns-ahead-of-snap-election/ #Microtargeting #PrivacyConcerns #DataProtection #PoliticalAds #Election2023