Cathy O’Neill Chapter 4 Propaganda Machine: Online Advertising

Chongzhi Gao
1 min readMar 17, 2021

In this chapter Propaganda Machine: Online Advertising, the author overcomes social paralysis and even how people at the bottom of the valley are persecuted by predatory advertisements. They first put advertisements on the whole network, and at the same time, they will also help those for-profit companies or universities to put false and hypocritical advertisements to the poor. The structure of these companies to place online advertisements is a real weapon to destroy mathematics. Their functions are unusual, and their functions are extremely unusual, just like their advertisements, their scales are growing, and their powers are growing. Facebook and Google will help their customers collect information about their customers so that she can explain that for-profit companies spend a lot of money on targeting the poor. They promoted advertisements aimed at people in need, and for-profit companies like the University of Phoenix would do everything to squeeze the poor, so they spent a lot of extra money. They passed false promises and used the poor to want higher the urge to climb to attract them to school. For me, this must be another correction after the fake university rankings. As I said in the last blog, to find a job easier, we must reach college admissions. Isn’t this what those for-profit universities seek? I seem to have chosen us to step into the trap of those cutting-edge capitalists’ step by step.

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