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Companies learning to flip elections perfected their tactics in smaller or emerging countries, such as Latvia, Trinidad, or Nigeria, before turning to markets involving elections in developed nations. Paul Mason suggests that while at the moment there is a lot of angst from people being reminded of how their harvested data is used, it is really the union of private espionage, cracking, and "black ops" capabilities that should be setting off alarms.
Disturbingly, both CA and SCL have high-level contracts with governments, giving them access to secret intelligence both in the US and the UK. SCL is on List X, which allows it to hold British secret intelligence at its facilities.
It now appears that techniques they used in Ukraine and Eastern Europe to counteract Russian influence, and against Islamist terrorism in the Middle East, were then used to influence elections in the heart of Western democracy itself.
Let's be clear about what we're facing. A mixture of free market dogmatism plus constraints imposed by the rule of law has led, over the past decades, to the creation of an alternative, private, secret state.
When it was only focused on the enemies and rivals of the West, or hapless politicians in the global south, nobody minded. Now it is being used as a weapon to tear apart democracy in Britain and the US we care — and rightly so.
From New Statesman: We need to destroy the election-rigging industry before it destroys us
(Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday March 27 2018, @10:53PM (1 child)
I'm pretty sure you can easily find non-censorship examples of propaganda painting the truth with a specific agenda.
The facts described on the front page of Fox News are often the same as the facts described on the front page of MSNBC.
The cop who put a couple bullets in an innocent's chest IS the cop that was told to rush in and thought there was a gun.
The kid had a clock, which did look like it was a bomb.
The pizza parlor's basement did not exist, but if it did, Hillary would have certainly needed to be stopped by a brave man rising against trading children there for prostitution (Ok, fine, it doesn't always work).
Propaganda isn't just lies. It's about presenting The Truth that you want people to hear.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 28 2018, @01:33PM
That was the original meaning of alternative facts, which was twisted and scoffed at. The MSM try to post information like there is just one story and these are the facts, while the truth is it is almost impossible to tell a story without putting a slant on it. Take the current cops shooting unarmed man. Interview family and people who knew him and you have slanted in favor against the cops. Interview the cops and police chief and you have slanted the other way. interview both, and the order of the interviews and connecting words determine the slant. And the media have given up on maintaining as close to middle reporting as possible due to consumer requirements. Nobody wants it. We want propaganda machines.