Posted on Oct 9, 2019
Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency'
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Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency'
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So, two thoughts.
1. If you are influenced by something your read on facebook or other social media, and don't do any homework to verify what you are reading is true, you are a fool. No different than when the wine industry advertises that "studies show" that a glass of red wine daily is good for your digestion, prevents strokes, etc.
2. Anyone that thinks that anything that gets transmitted on the internet is "private" is likewise a fool. Not your emails (LOL, nope), or your facebook profile, or your IMs, or your texts, or your pictures. NONE OF IT is private.
Putting all that metadata together and weaponizing it goes back way farther than 2016, and indeed farther back than the existence of the internet. It is what PSYOPs and other Information Operations have done for over a hundred years.
1. If you are influenced by something your read on facebook or other social media, and don't do any homework to verify what you are reading is true, you are a fool. No different than when the wine industry advertises that "studies show" that a glass of red wine daily is good for your digestion, prevents strokes, etc.
2. Anyone that thinks that anything that gets transmitted on the internet is "private" is likewise a fool. Not your emails (LOL, nope), or your facebook profile, or your IMs, or your texts, or your pictures. NONE OF IT is private.
Putting all that metadata together and weaponizing it goes back way farther than 2016, and indeed farther back than the existence of the internet. It is what PSYOPs and other Information Operations have done for over a hundred years.
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SPC Kevin Ford
1SG (Join to see) Exactly so, and unfortunately the voting population is full of, as you say, fools. As you also say, this type of operation has been going on for a very, very long time.
What has changed is the effectiveness of such an operation. There is now the ability to reach out and "touch" a large number of people, delivering each one of them a message tailored just for them.
What has changed is the effectiveness of such an operation. There is now the ability to reach out and "touch" a large number of people, delivering each one of them a message tailored just for them.
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