MathiasTCK.bsky.social#PushPolling
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_poll
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A #PushPoll is an interactive marketing technique, most commonly employed during #PoliticalCampaigning, in which a person or organization attempts to manipulate or alter #ProspectiveVoters' views under the guise of conducting an #OpinionPoll.
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Push poll - Wikipedia
Dick Smiths Fair Go Supporters@kakure
Someone on a podcast was talking about this #ManagedDemocracy.
Its part of the reason we don't appreciate #streamingServices that learn what a person is watching — #advertisers can target people using #tropes they are familiar with from such #films and #television series they've watched.
Thus the citizen loses #freeThought.
Its been going on for such a long time though. Started in the 1970 with the #focusGroup and #pushPolling.