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

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @08:00PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @08:00PM (#655092)

    Yep, you're pretty stupid. Probably use Windows, 'cause of those amazing high-tech supper-advanced Micro$erft ads on the telly.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @10:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @10:10PM (#655152)

    'cause of those amazing high-tech supper-advanced Micro$erft ads on the telly.

    I don't care about supper, not matter how advanced.
    Breakfast-advanced however...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @11:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 19 2018, @11:00PM (#655177)

    Probably use Windows, 'cause of those amazing high-tech supper-advanced Micro$erft ads on the telly.

    Nope. Use Linux at home. Only use Windoze at work because they make me do it--and even then I use it as little as possible.