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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: 1, Flamebait) by linkdude64 on Tuesday April 11 2017, @06:50PM (8 children)
"I'm going to claim that a minority is equal in strength to a majority because it serves my cognitive bias to do so."
-Azuma Hazuki (Translated quote)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:44PM (4 children)
> "I'm going to claim that a minority is equal in strength to a majority because it serves my cognitive bias to do so."
You don't seem to understand how information works, do you?
Here's a clue, its non-rivalrous. [wikipedia.org]
Turns out that liberals spread their news consumption pretty broadly across multiple sources.
Conservatives have all clustered up around Fox news. [journalism.org]
That's why Fox News has such high ratings - they get the lion's share of conservatives while the remainig pool of viewers is split N-ways between all the other sources of news who are consequently much more competitive, and thus accountable to their viewers.
So, yeah Fox is able to produce enough disinformation to manipulate at least as many people as the so-called 'left' media is able to in aggregate.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:54PM (3 children)
That is not at all what she was saying. You came in to attempt to justify anyway. For Fox News to be such a conservative bastian, it seems to be all of the liberal people I know who wait on it with baited breath to wail about what they just saw on it. I don't hear my conservative friends talk about it at all. Many of them actually listen to BBC and other sources instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 11 2017, @08:06PM (1 child)
> That is not at all what she was saying.
But it is exactly what dinkdude was saying and that is who I responded to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @02:53AM
> That is not at all what she was saying.
But it is exactly what dinkdude was saying and that is who I responded to.
But linkdude is not too bright, so it is probably best just to skip over his posts, Definitely do not respond the them, it will only encourage him and lead him deeper into denial and delusion and destitude and desirata.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @02:34AM
FFS! If you are going to defend the "cuckservingtive" cause, please learn to spell, so you do not embarrass Bill O'Really.
For Fox News to be such a conservative bastian, it seems to be all of the liberal people I know who wait on it with baited breath to wail about what they just saw on it.
What the F is a "bastian"? Could it be a bastard bastion? Alt-facts and alt-truth are one thing, but you do not get alt-spelling.
"baited breath" . . . Srsly? "Baited"? as in, to put something attractive upon so as to lure in victims? How do you do that with your breath? Oh! You probably meant "with bated breath", because that is the actual English phrase. "bated", as in held back, (as in rebate, probate masterbate), to waiting while holding your breath. Do not make this mistake again. It makes you look illiterate, and now everyone is going think all conservatives are just as uneducated, especially the ones who only now realize they have been using the wrong word for lo these many years.
(Score: 3, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday April 11 2017, @07:59PM (2 children)
Really now? Creo que estás usando este software de traducción de forma incorrecta. Por favor, consulta el manual.
Yeah, you don't get to drag me down to your level, asshat. Fox is well known to be full of shit. They've done to our parents what our parents worried violent video games would do to us. And you, ironically, are the one doing what you accuse me of here; simply plugging your ears and going "Nuh uhhh, they're WORSE!" without actually doing the research.
Yes, mainstream news has gone to hell, and no, I don't really trust any of those networks now, but I'd be a hell of a lot more inclined to trust the BBC than Fox and with good reason.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @01:28AM
"News" doesn't matter much these days. The conversation is driven by talk radio on one side and late-night comedy on the other.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday April 12 2017, @02:47PM
"you don't get to drag me down to your level, asshat."
If money is speech, and it ABSOLUTELY is when it comes to fucking television broadcasting, all of the other news conglomerates combined have more speech than Fox News does. This is just the economic reality. How that claim could be construed as trying to "bring you down to my level" is beyond me, so please explain your reasoning.
"simply plugging your ears"
Where the fuck is your argument, then? Where is your supporting evidence to your claim that ALL OTHER NEWS STATIONS are EQUAL in influence to a SINGLE one of their competitors? Of course there are subtleties, but do you know what supports my claim that they are still ultimately in competition with each other? The fact that clickbait headlines and misrepresentative sound bites are used to garner attention by every one of them. They are in competition with each other bar fucking none, and you are grasping at straws and falling back to ad hominems faster than your terminal velocity would be if you were physically taking such huge leaps in logic.