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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuardian: The Cambridge Analytica Files I created Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw"In the history of bad ideas, this turned out to be one of the worst. The job was research director across the SCL group, a private contractor that has both defence and elections operations. Its defence arm was a contractor to the UKs Ministry of Defence and the USs Department of Defense, among others. Its expertise was in psychological operations or psyops changing peoples minds not through persuasion but through informational dominance, a set of techniques that includes rumour, disinformation and fake news."
This is a frightening article. The war we dare not mention is CLASS WAR, and the vultures are winning. We need to wake up and stop them.
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Guardian: The Cambridge Analytica Files I created Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool (Original Post)
Generic Other
Mar 2018
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dalton99a
(81,475 posts)1. Facebook has been weaponized.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)5. They profiled us
with personality tests and other click bait where we gave them permission to access our friend lists, then they sold the data to the Russians. Worse they made multiple unencrypted copies of the data that they acknowledge could have gone anywhere.
And one of the lowlifes they worked for was Bannon. He is the sleaziest one of the bunch.
poboy2
(2,078 posts)2. r'd
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)3. K&R!
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Facebook is Toxic.
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)6. Even with all ads and privacy settings locked down
they found backdoors. Came tracking crap all over, sludge stuck to the boots of our friends and relatives!
I wonder what can be done now? If this was a sci-fi movie, I would expect we would have to destroy the mainframe and go back to the stone age.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)7. Our Grand Daughter found that out last night.
She went to her FB to talk to her Sister,whole pile of unwanted crap popped up.