[Vision2020] Cambridge Analytical Facebook Data: Psychological Profiling to Politically Manipulate Voters

[Scott Dredge]

It's doubtful to me that this had any significant effect on the election.  Hillary received nearly 3 million more votes than Trump.

From the article:
"Cambridge probably didn’t use illicit Facebook data to help Trump"
And,

"While Cambridge got a lot of press coverage—both before the 2016 election and after it—post-election reporting has cast doubt on the effectiveness of Cambridge Analytica's methods."



On Tuesday, March 20, 2018, 9:48:20 PM PDT, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:


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Why would anyone be surprised at this revelation currently in the news?  That the Internet has become a tool of manipulation of the psychology of the public for numerous agendas, both political and commercial, is more than obvious.  The fact that millions of people are voluntarily exposing intimate details of their personal lives, especially on Facebook, to vast data mining for the purposes of deep "psychographic" profiling, is naïve beyond belief.

Read in this article that conservative hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who was connected to Steve Bannon and Brietbart, was also linked to funding Cambridge Analytical, which may have assisted in advertising propaganda to elect Trump:

Facebook's Cambridge Analytical Scandal Explained

Trump Operatives Got Private Data from 50 Million Facebook Users

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/03/facebooks-cambridge-analytica-scandal-explained/
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