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The Cambridge Analytica Files

posted by martyb on Monday March 19 2018, @12:52PM   
from the psychological-warfare-in-peacetime dept.

fritsd writes:

The Guardian has an article about a whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica, who claims to have devised a strategy to "weaponize" Facebook profiles, in order to use those profile for targeted advertising to sway the US elections in 2016.

The Cambridge Analytica Files: ‘I created Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower

(The Guardian headline titles are often crap). I read a few older articles, presumably by the same author: she had a series of articles in March--May 2017 about Cambridge Analytica being used as a weapon to convince British voters to vote for Brexit in the referendum. It seems that her investigative journalism encouraged this wistleblower to "come out" and be interviewed by her.

Here's one: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others (Churchill), but when does advertising cross the line into psychological warfare against your own population?

Additional coverage at The Register

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• I like that way to measure things. I like that way to measure things. (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @01:53PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @01:53PM (#654887)

  We improve our circumstances when we make America great, as Trump promised (Why wouldn't every politician make this obvious promise?) and strangely is actually delivering.

  We degrade our circumstances if we pick Hillary, the most corrupt presidential candidate in over half a century. She didn't even like us Americans.

  So it seems that Hillary crossed that line into psychological warfare against America, while Trump provides a social good.

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• Re:I like that way to measure things. (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @08:48PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @08:48PM (#655116)

  Yet despite Trump winning in this timeline, things still barrel headlong towards N-day.

  The matrix has you.

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