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This shows how Cambridge Analytica alumni political consulting companies use private detectives, smear campaigns, social media, bots, and individually targeted posts, using cell phone data to tell which people went to a rally, a particular Catholic church, to other events, etc.- all to tailor political...
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link Terri Gross also had an interview with Bloomberg reporter Chafkin's book about Peter Thiel who founded Palantir, which does data mining and works with using our past " locations on our phones" , "when we log into social media", "to identify...
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"Controversy wins. Negative beats positive. All attention looks good to an algorithm." FB allows lies and divisiveness, as they attract more eyeballs that FB can sell to advertisers and politicians. NYT article "The company also appears willing to bend its...
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Jonathan Lindgren wrote on FB about avoiding TV because it makes us upset and full of cortisol, "Someone else's comment, and part of why I don't watch TV: On April 18, 1930 the BBC Evening News reported, "There is no...