{"id":6868,"date":"2017-09-23T20:29:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=6868"},"modified":"2017-09-23T20:29:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T01:29:39","slug":"facebooks-ad-scandal-isnt-a-fail-its-a-feature-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2017\/09\/23\/facebooks-ad-scandal-isnt-a-fail-its-a-feature-the-new-york-times.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook\u2019s Ad Scandal Isn\u2019t a \u2018Fail,\u2019 It\u2019s a Feature &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Here\u2019s the hard truth: All these problems are structural. Facebook is approaching half-a-trillion dollars in market capitalization because the business model \u2014 ad-targeting through deep surveillance, emaciated work force, automation and the use of algorithms to find and highlight content that entice people to stay on the site or click on ads or share pay-for-play messages \u2014 works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/23\/opinion\/sunday\/facebook-ad-scandal.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=Opinion&amp;module=RelatedCoverage&amp;region=EndOfArticle&amp;pgtype=article\">Facebook\u2019s Ad Scandal Isn\u2019t a \u2018Fail,\u2019 It\u2019s a Feature &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the hard truth: All these problems are structural. Facebook is approaching half-a-trillion dollars in market capitalization because the business model \u2014 ad-targeting through deep surveillance, emaciated work force, automation and the use of algorithms to find and highlight content that entice people to stay on the site or click on ads or share pay-for-play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-other-places","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1MM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}