“Information gerrymandering” influences voters

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26 points·meerita··7 comments

About 2 weeks ago there was some discussion on the Nature "News and Views" piece discussing this result: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20909056

Are these graphs undirected?

You do not have follow your followers/friends. They will see your updates but you won't see theirs.

Someone please save democracy from the people! They just can't be trusted...

We should just leave politics to the professionals.

I was joking when I wrote it but it's no joke really. We're meat machines. And after thousands of years we finally start to figure out how our primitive meat brains tick.

Eventually some neural network will be able to sway one's vote by showing a cute dog picture at just the right time.

We better start thinking about what we need after democracy has ran it's course...

I wasn't serious either, more sarcastic than anything else. I don't think that we should leave it to the pros - especially when the prevailing 'realpolitik' political theory explicitly eschews moral guidelines in favor of pragmatics. What happens to us peons when the professional overlords get tired of playing nice?

Thats why the politicians and there henchmen need more secret powers to middle man facebook, doh i mean, police facebook, you know, just in case the Russians and the Chinese are influencing your vote for trump

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