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Clinton's nearly 3 million popular vote lead over Trump is not relevant regarding whether or not Cambridge Analytica's input to the Trump campaign influenced the small vote margins in these three key states. </font> <font size="4">Of course a propaganda model to win the electoral college would target voters in key electoral college swing states, and not focus on states like California, which had a too large vote margin for H. Clinton to overcome. </font>The same can be said about Russian social media influence over the election of Trump.</div><div><br></div><div>Cambridge Analytica could have influenced the election by targeting psychographic profiles derived from Facebook data that was obtained "legally,' though given Facebook's profit driven exploitation of personal data voluntarily handed over by users, it is difficult to know what "legal" exactly means.</div><div><br></div><div>Ironically, as I sit laughing my head off, I just pasted the following quote from Facebook:</div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/newshour/posts/10156332321863675">https://www.facebook.com/newshour/posts/10156332321863675</a><span></span></div><div><font size="6">“Fundamentally, Facebook is a surveillance machine. They get as much data as they can, and they promise advertisers that they're able to manipulate us…” -Tim Wu, Columbia Law School</font><span><span><br></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">Facebook has publicly admitted that they were "deceived," </font>which sheds serious doubt on the quote you offered that "Cambridge probably didn't use illicit Facebook data..." <font size="4">If they deceived Facebook, what do you call the data thus obtained by deceit?</font><br><br></div><div><a href="http://www.dw.com/en/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-admits-mistakes-in-cambridge-analytica-scandal/a-43059502">http://www.dw.com/en/facebooks-mark-zuckerberg-admits-mistakes-in-cambridge-analytica-scandal/a-43059502</a><span></span></div><div><p><font size="6">"We should not have trusted Cambridge Analytica's certification, and we are not going to make that mistake again," Zuckerberg said.</font></p><p><font size="6">In a statement cited by US media late on Tuesday, the social media network said:</font> <font size="6">"The entire company is outraged that we were deceived," in a reference to the UK-based political research firm at the center of the scandal.</font><span><span><br></span></span></p></div><div><h1><span><font size="4">Maybe Cambridge Analytica's methods are doubtful, but just as with the Russian cyber social media influence, it is difficult to quantify whether a mere 77,744 votes could or not have been influenced by these propaganda methods.</font></span></h1></div><div><span><h1>What quantitative data do you have to support your doubtful position about social media propaganda influence over the Trump win in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan?<br></h1></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Scott Dredge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scooterd408@hotmail.com" target="_blank">scooterd408@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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:</div>
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