Brexit, Trump, Farage, conspiracy theories apparently being right?
@cassolotl@cybre.space give me a few minutes to google
Brexit, Trump, Farage, conspiracy theories apparently being right?
@cassolotl@cybre.space this is the article about trump, you'll see there wery similar https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win
Brexit, Trump, Farage, conspiracy theories apparently being right?
@cassolotl@cybre.space this is one article that refutes it, i can't really read it rn so idk how useful it is https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-12-08/no-big-data-didn-t-win-the-u-s-election
Brexit, Trump, Farage, conspiracy theories apparently being right?
@cassolotl@cybre.space more general points are, you can't really influence people's opinion like that. you may be able to pull people who are already racist shitheads towards a certain candidate or vote, but you won't be able to install white supremacy in a populace that doesn't already subscribe to it
Brexit, Trump, Farage, conspiracy theories apparently being right?
@cassolotl@cybre.space and this one http://littleatoms.com/news-science/donald-trump-didnt-win-election-through-facebook