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Revealed: how US billionaire helped to back Brexit
- bootload 10y ago"The strategy involved harvesting data from people’s Facebook and other social media profiles and then using machine learning to “spread” through their networks." Never heard this before. Who is ^Cambridge Analytica/SCL?^
- mirimir 10y ago> Two weeks ago Arron Banks, Leave.eu’s founder, stated in a series of tweets that Gerry Gunster (Leave.eu’s pollster) and Cambridge Analytica with “world class” AI had helped them gain “unprecedented levels of engagement”. “AI won it for Leave,” he said. We're in the middle of the Singularity ;)
- fencepost 10y agoThere's big money to be made in chaotic times if you're prepared for them. Brexit offers huge opportunities in companies moving in and out of the UK, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to see him involved in another Scottish independence push if Scotland wants to stay in the EU and can come to some agreement.