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Steve Bannon (the Breitbart News figurehead) is on Cambridge Analytica's board. Yes, that Steve Bannon, chief strategist for President Trump: a guy who – comple
by facetube 10y ago
Steve Bannon (the Breitbart News figurehead) is on Cambridge Analytica's board. Yes, that Steve Bannon, chief strategist for President Trump: a guy who – completely coincidentally – has already started his campaign for 2020.
Big data, microtargeting, and social graph analysis are being used to manipulate the electorate.
- rtx 10y agoInform the electorate about their view point.
- MisterBastahrd 10y agoNo, intentionally mislead the electorate.
- facetube 10y agoTheir view point and reality are incompatible. For instance, Breitbart repeatedly claimed that the airport protests were "terrorist-funded" by CAIR. There is no factual evidence that the airport travel ban protests were funded by any politically-motivated group seeking to wage violence against the United States. It's a viewpoint, sure. But it's wrong.