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   If It's Advertised to You Online, You Pr   
   20 Apr 23 17:13:43   
   
   From: submissions@telecom-digest.org   
      
   By Julia Angwin   
      
   If you saw a Facebook ad recently for Jeremy’s Razors, which bills   
   itself as a “woke-free” razor for men, you may well be a father of   
   school-age children who likes ultimate fighting, Hershey’s chocolate,   
   hunting or Johnny Cash. This is according to Facebook’s ad library,   
   which describes the audiences to which marketers target their   
   advertisements.   
      
   I can see why Jeremy’s Razors is focusing its ad dollars on men who   
   might appreciate its hypermasculine message. But the reverse is not as   
   clear: Are these men better off for having been pitched an “anti-woke”   
   razor?   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion/online-advertising-pr   
   vacy-data-surveillance-consumer-quality.html   
      
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