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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Cambridge Analytica Files: 'I made Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool': meet the data war
The Cambridge Analytica Files: 'I made Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool': meet the data war whistleblowerFor more than a year weve been investigating Cambridge Analytica and its links to the Brexit Leave campaign in the UK and Team Trump in the US presidential election. Now, 28-year-old Christopher Wylie goes on the record to discuss his role in hijacking the profiles of millions of Facebook users in order to target the US electorate
by Carole Cadwalladr Sun 18 Mar 2018 05.44 EDT
The first time I met Christopher Wylie, he didnt yet have pink hair. That comes later. As does his mission to rewind time. To put the genie back in the bottle.
Or, as Wylie describes it, he was the gay Canadian vegan who somehow ended up creating Steve Bannons psychological warfare mindfuck tool.
In 2014, Steve Bannon then executive chairman of the alt-right news network Breitbart was Wylies boss. And Robert Mercer, the secretive US hedge-fund billionaire and Republican donor, was Cambridge Analyticas investor. And the idea they bought into was to bring big data and social media to an established military methodology information operations then turn it on the US electorate.
Wylie oversaw what may have been the first critical breach. Aged 24, while studying for a PhD in fashion trend forecasting, he came up with a plan to harvest the Facebook profiles of millions of people in the US, and to use their private and personal information to create sophisticated psychological and political profiles. And then target them with political ads designed to work on their particular psychological makeup.
We broke Facebook, he says.
And he did it on behalf of his new boss, Steve Bannon.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump
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The Cambridge Analytica Files: 'I made Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool': meet the data war (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Mar 2018
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Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)1. The republican* Psycho War on America
is treason against America.
* formerly conservative now radical political party led by a five-time draft dodger with a background as a casino hustler, a cheating & failed businessman, a sexual predator, and a serial liar.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Those fu**ing Mercer's and Bannon are the main drivers apparently
Trump used this company and Facebook's stolen data to mindfuck America and screw Hillary out of the presidency.
The story is just startling to come to light.
ariadne0614
(1,692 posts)3. The original Guardian article is required reading.
Thanks for the link.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)4. Show it to all your friends
This is how Bannon, Trump, the Mercers, republicans in general are bringing fascism worldwide including the USA of course.