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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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @05:55PM (4 children)
no, no, no!
Everybody is equally venal and manipulative. There is no such thing as ethics and standards.
Anyone who tries to live up to a standard and fails was just a crook all along.
There are no principles, only tribes.
The nazis were no worse than the americans.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:32PM (3 children)
The nazis were no worse than the americans.
Well, apparently the Nazis didn’t even sink to using chemical weapons [cbsnews.com] so maybe you're on to something!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @09:13PM (1 child)
Well, if anyone is qualified to know, its the people in the whitehouse.
They have an actual nazi on staff, [lobelog.com] they probably just asked him.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @04:35AM
So they should know! And, they are correct. Gassing a bunch of people because of their ethnic identity, in a room, with poison, is not the use of chemical weapons: it is genocide. Nazis supposedly did not use chemical weapons against combatants because: 1. they were cowards, like the Nazis that are emerging the the US right now. Prefer to attack people already constrained or otherwise made unable to fight back. Cowards. 2. Not war, but genocide, or more plainly, mass murder on a scale never seen before on the planet, and made worse by the complicity of Dupont-IGFarben: better dying through chemistry. The only thing easier, more impersonal, and evil, is a nuke. And 3. Hitler himself survived a gas attack in WWI, and supposedly thought it was a bad way to die, if you were a soldier, as opposed to an undesireable civilian. So Assad has much to answer for. But then, so does the Trump administration, since as the Donald said, American kills people, too.
(Score: 2) by dry on Wednesday April 12 2017, @04:33AM
Hitler had experienced chemical weapons firsthand.