It’s sad when a comedian decides they are old enough to step out of character and reveal what a bigoted moronic asshole they really are.
Source: John Cleese disappoints me
Cory Nails It
The problem is that we’re confusing automated persuasion with automated targeting. Laughable lies about Brexit, Mexican rapists, and creeping Sharia law didn’t convince otherwise sensible people that up was down and the sky was green.
Rather, the sophisticated targeting systems available through Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other Big Tech ad platforms made it easy to find the racist, xenophobic, fearful, angry people who wanted to believe that foreigners were destroying their country while being bankrolled by George Soros.
Source: Cory Doctorow: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags – Locus Online
