DudeOpotomus

Is this broad generalization based on your experience, or your feelings?

It seems that you may be conflating journalism with news. They are not the same thing.

Curious wow old you are and where you grew up? When did you and where were you when you experienced this singular market bias.

I find it sad that intelligent, educated people can be so blind to the evils building around them. How they confuse the opportunity for a right and how they take and accept awful as normal because they were raised without understanding what they never had...

To associate contextual advertising based on large scale demographics and location with spying, lying, cheating and thieving at an individual level, is a great example of this in real life.

In the old days, the tabloids were obvious. The sensationalism was easy to identify and passive in its voice. They sat on the end caps of grocery stores, far away from the News. TV news was regulated and there was a strict ethics code in place. Today, all news is tabloid as they all chase attention. They have all become the Weekly World News and as a result, we have clowns and ignoramuses running things.

And people fell for it. They actually fell for it...and continue to fall for it.

That is why it's a cancer. Ad tech eats everything in its path and destroys everything good in the process.

When you cannot tell the difference between fact and fiction, you have lost the plot.

Ad Tech is a cancer that is / has destroyed society. It is responsible for almost everything that is awful today. Conflating attention for interest and rewarding sensationalism has created a giant stinking hole in our lives.

It must be eradicated.

Do everything in your power to destroy these companies and their immoral business practices.

The funny thing about stupid people, they do stupid things all the time...

Like buying Yahoo circa 2015...

Like buying Aol, circa 2000

The audience has already left and it's never, ever coming back.

It's never wrong to do the right thing.

Trump and his cronies are short timers. They will all be gone in a few years, many in prison, many in the ground.

Treat them with abandon and disdain, because they are the worst people in the history of the USA. Stand on your principles because they have none.

Except machines dont pay for products or services... show all the fake ads you want to all the fake profiles you can, inflate your figures to the moon but in the end, the results for the advertiser will determine media value not the fake metrics.

All digital media is a race to the bottom. It appears that Pinterest is falling very fast.

PINS has 5200 employees! What The actual F are 5200 people doing?

This company exemplifies the "dead internet". No way they grow, let alone hit their targets.

Going short.

Kids today learning about the FTC and standards... we used to be a real country, with real laws that actually helped real people.

Such a terrible take...

You confirmed both my point and yours at the same time...

Like poker, math only takes you so far in sales. You have to learn people if you want to succeed at selling. In fact, math is all but irrelevant for most person to person sales. Buying decisions are mostly emotional. Learning people is a skill that will translate to every other aspect of your life.

There is no definitive reason for creators to be paid. Zero. These platforms can and should stop paying people for their content. Without the platforms, the creators are dead. Make them pay for access to the audience and this whole problem disappears and makes the platforms far more profits.

Kill the influencer, kill the creator. Its all bullshit.

This is actually the only real life use case for blockchain. Certifying the originality of the content.

But nope. Instead we have meme coins and speculators...