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Quite literally his campaign invented the tactic of scraping your friends list as a way to persuade voters. The important difference was CA used data that was g
by cmac2992 9y ago
Quite literally his campaign invented the tactic of scraping your friends list as a way to persuade voters. The important difference was CA used data that was gathered under the misleading guise of a personality quiz.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campaigns-digital-masterminds-cash-in.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/23/magazine/the-obama-campai...
- culturestate 9y agoThey were the first to deploy it on such a massive scale, but I can assure you they did not invent that concept.
- ahtu123 9y agoCambridge Analytica had 200 clients. Now not all of those are major elections but CA is also not the only player who's been doing this. Governments and shady organizations have been perfecting media-based mass manipulation for decades/centuries.