The media keeps calling this a data breach. "Data breach" isnt a tenth of the story

[Squinch]

This was about analyzing the information of the 50 million stolen accounts until, as whistleblower Wylie said, CA knew the FB user more intimately than anyone else in the world. They knew the users’ neuroses and fears and paranoia, even when the FB user himself or herself did not.

And it wasn’t about anyone “falling for ads”. Part of the CA analysis was to learn how each user would best receive information, i.e, through blogs or websites or friends reporting information. Wylie describes then setting up bogus blogs and websites and seeding bogus “friends,” and funneling each user to the path that would most efficiently change the user’s opinions and change their vote depending on their profile of fears and anxieties. CA’s bogus videos were watched 30 million times.

The users didn’t have any way to know it was happening. It was as if every one of the many links we follow here on DU was designed by people who were adept at psychological warfare, who knew which of our buttons to push and how to maximize our fear and discomfort.

The increase in hatred, fear and neurosis we are seeing is no mistake. It was manufactured.

If a data breach is a drop of water, this was the Mississippi.

[leftstreet]

1. That's actually a very good point

'data breach' suggests a possible "OOPS! Sears stores accidentally got hacked for credit card numbers." We're accustomed to that

This is totally different, but already the language is getting manipulated

[Squinch]

2. Right. A data breach is maybe someone is going to use my credit card.

This was former military psy-ops people messing with the minds of 50 million people.

[poboy2]

3. Right, its the same lazy nondescript labeling as 'mishandling e-mails'.

It fails to assign motive and context.

This was a PSYOP. Psychological Operation.

or as I like to call it, mindfuckery.

[Squinch]

4. PSYOP against 50 million people. That's jaw dropping every time I think about it.

[poboy2]

8. Well, I guess one could compare it to what China does...or North Korea

But this is not government sanctioned, rather private/CORPORATE nation mindfuckery.

[Squinch]

9. We HAVE to get money out of elections. If there were no Mercers I wonder if this could have happened

[DinahMoeHum]

10. Methinks it would still happen: if not the Mercers. . .

. . .then someone else, maybe on a lesser scale.

All the same, Citizens United has to be overturned. . .one way or another.

[Squinch]

12. Hey Dinah!

[quartz007]

26. +1,000,000

Guys like tRump win because of money, more than anything else.

[Skittles]

5. CORRECT

we keep wondering WTF happened, why people seem to have lost their minds - talking to a Trump Humper is mind-boggling - the disconnect from reality is hard to understand

[Squinch]

7. And the hatred and terror going on in our country right now is no accident. This was a

manufactured thing. They found where it was and they fanned it and fed it til it was what we see today.

[backtoblue]

11. Exactly nt

[poboy2]

13. They explicitly say outright that they looked for our fears and anxieties

[sheshe2]

15. This.

They brought the gasoline and handed over the matches.

[YessirAtsaFact]

23. I agree with you to a point

But hate radio had been brainwashing the residents of Hillbilly Junction for decades before Trump happened.

CA provided the tools take it to another level of precision using digital media.

However as long as I’ve been following politics, the Republicans have been formentng hatred and division to win elections.

[spanone]

6. 'DATA THIEF'

[OnDoutside]

14. 100% correct. The 50 million accounts were only the START, to allow them to design the

algorithms. Let's not forget the later connection to Spectrum Health, likely hacked voter rolls, and the Trump campaign had Facebook staff on site with Parscale.

[Tatiana]

16. Exactly! This was systematic brainwashing without the victim knowing what was happening.

Now we know why everyone lost their damn minds.

They were led to.

[Squinch]

17. Yes! And they really did! We saw it all happening.

[Delphinus]

18. Thank you

for stating it so clearly.

[Squinch]

19. It's making me nuts the way they're soft-pedaling it. It's really a horrible thing.

[Delphinus]

20. And I'm going to

use your analysis of what is going on every time I can.

[Squinch]

22. I'm glad! Thank you!

[mr_lebowski]

27. I laugh at the 'liberal media' claims all the time ... it's CORPORATE media ... aside from like RM

There's no 'liberal media' whatsoever. When the 'liberal' side of a story is told it's PURELY because it's profitable (in the net) to Media Ownership and their corporate buddies.

I absolutely KNEW our media would do nothing but soft-peddle this shit.

Rachel and Joy and Chris H (and to some extent Colbert and Oliver I'm sure) will be the ONLY people in the media that will delve into the details and give the American People THE TRUTH.

[jrthin]

21. That's why we should be grateful for the foreign press.

What we have in American, generally speaking, are mouthpieces and stenographers for the corportions.

[poboy2]

24. yes- but we need to tell or 4th estate to be strong as well. Call them out.

[jrthin]

25. Agreed. nt

[Eko]

28. Same ol game, new tools.

The GOP has been doing this for a long time, stoking peoples fears to make them react in a pre-planned way, look at faux news. I'm not trying to mitigate this at all though,,,,, I'm sure CA and the Russians and Dump were all in on this and we will be surprised when we find out. This is why I always push back when people want us to use some of their methods,,,,, I want nothing to do with any of that.