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posted by on Tuesday April 11 2017, @11:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the did-runaway-and-OO-switch-bodies? dept.

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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.

Source: http://projectcensored.org/top-trump-donor-big-data-billionaire-helped-tip-election-now-works-reshape-media/

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @05:00AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 12 2017, @05:00AM (#492619)

    How do you tell a communist and an anti-communist apart? The former merely read Marx, the latter understood it.

    Spoken like a true Nazi! You Fascist, misogynist, racist bastard! I fart in your general direction. But that is only because I know what you do not! I, am not left handed! Wait, that is not it. I know both that you have never, ever read Marx, mostly because he uses big words, and I know that since you never read him, you obviously do not understand him. You might understand the version that your obercommandant has given you to memorize, as is appropriate for someone so low down on the buggering order, but it remains the same. You have no idea about what you are talking about, because you are a stupid, uneducated, illiterate, cuckservative! There! I said it! Up against the wall with you, my dear counter-revolutionary. Not so much because we disagree with you, but because of all the children you gave free helicopter rides to, of all the young people you killed in the Soccer Stadium in Chile, because of all the murder and mayhem you carried out at the behest of your masters because you were too stupid to realize you were being used. That kind of ignorance is unforgiveable, it is unhuman and monstrous, and your fate is sealed. You are an enemy of humankind. Probably a lizard person.

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