microtarget
Americanverb (used with object)
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The other thing that these social media companies do is they microtarget people to the most minute degree such that they know what messages are going to resonate with you.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2024
The algorithms that recommend, microtarget and manipulate, and the millions of behavioral predictions pushed out by the second cannot exist without the trillions of data points fed to them each day.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2021
“We’re talking about literally the most sophisticated advertising platform in the history of capitalism, with the ability to microtarget users based on age and gender and industry and marital status,” Greenblatt says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2020
Everybody else knows that they have to go there because that's where the deals get made and where the people are, but they're there to microtarget those people.
From The Verge ● Jan. 5, 2016
The campaigns brag about their ability to microtarget voters.
From Time ● Oct. 18, 2012
But considering how microtargeted social media algorithms are, there are many more people in that group than the latter.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2024
And so perhaps disclosing some of the ways groups are being microtargeted, which microgroup we are in, how we’re being sorted, we could require disclosure of all of those things.
From Slate ● Mar. 11, 2024
Advances in artificial intelligence can also facilitate microtargeted attacks on Americans.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 12, 2022
One of microtargeted advertising’s big strengths is its cost and efficiency, said Hoff, who leads KFF’s social impact media team.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2021
Talk to us Send us tips, comments, questions, and microtargeted advertisements: [email protected] and [email protected].
From The Verge ● Jan. 10, 2020
While many may not realize it, we are increasingly subject to these powers that can manipulate our actions through behavioral advertising and psychometric microtargeting.
From Slate ● Apr. 7, 2020
Both companies’ business models, especially Facebook’s, were built around microtargeting.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 7, 2020
They weren’t microtargeting or saying different things to different people.
From The Verge ● Jan. 7, 2020
Indeed, human beings, bots, and microtargeting algorithms all play a role today in closing us off from facts, multiple points of view, and the contexts behind the information we see.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2019
Her group recently called for a moratorium on political microtargeting.
From New York Times ● Aug. 16, 2018
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