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Daily Archives: February 19, 2018

What Facebook and Twitter did in the 2016 election

Posted on February 19, 2018 by jjn1

“Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies did exactly what they tell marketers they can do — they let Russia’s troll factory more efficiently deliver disruptive messages to large groups of targeted people than if they had bought TV ads or any other traditional ad campaign.”

From REcode

Yep.

Posted in Politics

Slieve League

Posted on February 19, 2018 by jjn1

One of my favourite mountains, photographed on a beautiful but bitterly-cold day.

Posted in Photography
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