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| US buys ads on Facebook to fight jihadists |
| 2016-11-18 |
| [IsraelTimes] Social media companies’ detailed user data allows easy access to audiences susceptible to bad boy propaganda. Social media has long been a key battlefield in the war on Islamic extremism. But the US has found this year that online ads on media like Facebook, rather than posts, are a cost-effective way to fight the jihadist propaganda of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... and other such groups. Michael Lumpkin, the State Department’s point man in the "soft power" fight against Islamist bad boys, said Thursday at the Defense One Summit in Washington that Facebook’s detailed metrics for advertisers helps the government campaign reach its targets -- people who might be groomed online by jihadists. "Using Facebook ads, I can go within Facebook, I can grab an audience. I can pick country X, I need age group 13 to 34, I need people who liked His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us... or any other set, and I can shoot and hit them directly with messages," he said. "In some places in the world, it’s literally pennies a click to do it," he said. Lumpkin is the Coordinator of the Global Engagement Center at the State Department, a unit focused on both conducting its own campaigns against gunnies and coordinating with other groups to the same end, especially in on-line and mobile spaces. He said that the detailed user data that social media giants collect is crucial in identifying his target audience, on the social media that they prefer. "That’s why these Facebook ads that I mentioned are kind of a fundamental change for us: for very low investment we can be highly targeted towards the enemy." Facebook, he noted, offers the government access to affordable amassed and collated user data for singling out target groups and individuals for the anti-extremism ads the US government runs. "The best I can do right now is to have access to big data and to use the analytics tools on the social media platforms, the Facebooks and the others," he said. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 "Try this one crazy simple trick to stop jihading!" Accompanied by profile photo of homeless-looking FB user. |
| Posted by: charger 2016-11-18 18:27 |
| #1 How many days left? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-11-18 14:25 |