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I think it goes without saying that a social media site with millions of users and place 23 on the Alexa rankings is an interesting advertising platform, and th
by zython 10y ago
I think it goes without saying that a social media site with millions of users and place 23 on the Alexa rankings is an interesting advertising platform, and that it happens on a regular basis and a large distributed scale across the platform.
The far more important problem in my opinion in this situation is to be able to differentiate a "normal" user submitted post from an advertisiement, a skill that is missing in 80% of today's youth:
http://fortune.com/2016/11/23/stanford-fake-news/ http://fortune.com/2016/11/23/stanford-fake-news/
- rhizome 10y agoIt's not fair to call it a missing skill when the other side of that equation is a $500B+ industry of university-educated advertisers with decades of experience who are working to obfuscate the difference between ads and content, if not practice outright deception. What exactly are "today's youth" supposed to know in the face of that?