For $29, This Company Swears It Will ‘Brainwash’ Someone on Facebook

For as little as $29, a U.K. startup called The Spinner will individually target a special someone in your life with a barrage of Facebook ads subtly designed to influence their behavior, whether it’s persuading a spouse to initiate sex more often, or swaying a troublesome co-worker to quit their job. Today, 30 percent of The Spinner’s brainwashing ads run on Facebook and Instagram, Shefler said. Facebook, like other ad companies, is mostly paid when people click on an ad, while for The Spinner’s purposes mere exposure to the ad’s message is enough. To that end, The Spinner employs shell Facebook pages with names that make sense for a particular campaign, like a page titled “The loving wife” that backstops the ads in its Initiate Sex series.

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