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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 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
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday March 19 2018, @08:20PM (2 children)
Gerrymandering, forgot gerrymandering - and you're complaining about the Electoral College as if it were a form of gerrymandering... no, good sir, the Electoral College is weak tea in that realm [buzzfeed.com].
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Monday March 19 2018, @10:50PM (1 child)
Gerrymandering does not affect the presidential election, so again, it is an entirely unrelated problem WRT the EC.
(Score: 2) by dry on Tuesday March 20 2018, @03:32AM
Why isn't Puerto Rico a State? Seems they've asked to be admitted to the union, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico#Political_status [wikipedia.org] and due to not wanting to change the current status, as in they might vote the wrong way, they're being denied. Seems like a form of gerrymandering.