<story><title>Researchers show Facebook’s ad tools can target a single user</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/researchers-show-facebooks-ad-tools-can-target-a-single-user/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stuaxo</author><text>This was famously used to target Jeremy Corbyn.&lt;p&gt;Labour staffers working to prevent their own party winning under him were not posting the adverts they were meant to, but were able to use geofencing and other specifiers so it looked like everything was it should be when he was browsing.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;labour-hq-used-facebook-ads-to-deceive-corbyn-3hvn0jzr8&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.thetimes.co.uk&amp;#x2F;article&amp;#x2F;labour-hq-used-facebook-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Researchers show Facebook’s ad tools can target a single user</title><url>https://techcrunch.com/2021/10/15/researchers-show-facebooks-ad-tools-can-target-a-single-user/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>pixelgeek</author><text>Of interest is that my blocker stopped 45 tracking elements on that Techcrunch article.</text></comment>