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Rightwing computer scientist and hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer was the top donor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. He contributed $13.5 million and laid the groundwork for what is now called the Trump Revolution. Mercer also funded Cambridge Analytica (CA), a small data analytics company that specializes in "election management strategies." CA boasts on its website that it has psychological profiles, based on 5,000 separate pieces of data, on 220 million American voters. CA scoops up masses of data from peoples' Facebook profiles and uses artificial intelligence to influence their thinking and manipulate public opinion. They used these skills to exploit America's populist insurgency and tip the election toward Trump.
[...] We enter and participate in this digital world every day, on our laptops and our smartphones. We are living in a new era of propaganda, one we can't see, with the collection and use of our data played back in ways to covertly manipulate us. All this is enabled by technological platforms originally built to bring us together. Welcome to the age of platform capitalism—the new battleground for the future.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:20PM (1 child)
Different. WikiLeaks and the dastardly Russians did it, once it was out and a story the NYT had to cover it, who else could provide the proper context to the raw information? Who else could assure panicked Hillary supporters that there wasn't any real news here, to keep calm and donate again.
You don't get a Pulitzer for carrying someone else's big breaking news exclusive. Point being, just like the media sitting on the Lewinsky scandal until Drudge broke it, it sat on Susan Rice's latest crime until Cernovich broke it and the NYT would have sat on Seth Rich had they been given first shot at it, the media won't break a story harmful to Democrats. Once out they will decide if they can help with damage control by spinning it or burying the story. As CNN did with Susan Rice for example, at last check they had still refused to admit that story exists other than a few snarky "that is an attempt at distraction we ain't falling for" lines from idiots on live air.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:49PM
Who else could assure panicked Hillary supporters that there wasn't any real news here, to keep calm and donate again.
Yeah, because near constant coverage is how you assure people that there is no real news here.
What alternate reality do you live in?