Reply to Eckles et al.: Facebook’s optimization algorithms are highly unlikely to explain the effects of psychological targeting [Social Sciences]

We thank Eckles et al. (1) for their thoughtful comments. The authors point out that the optimization algorithms of Facebook's advertising platform constitute a potential confound of campaign outcomes. We agree, in general, that such algorithms could pose a threat to the validity of field studies since they introduce unintended...

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