As much as I think Trump's idiotic anti-media rhetoric erodes our democracy, when I see the NY Times publishing articles like this, it makes me cringe. First of

As much as I think Trump's idiotic anti-media rhetoric erodes our democracy, when I see the NY Times publishing articles like this, it makes me cringe. First of all, it's a complete non-article -- marketing firms used correlative data to make inferences about political affiliation? No way! Second of all, instead of being a smart and pointed analysis as to why this might be bad, it somehow draws political conclusions from a fashion conference and displays a large header featuring the green-haired Christopher Wylie making fantastical claims about "Bannon's insurgency" -- even an iota of research would clearly show that today's "alt-right" movement was a decades long project started by Newt Gingrich (among others in Republican leadership) in Georgia, escalated during Clinton's impeachment proceedings, and fully developed during the Tea Party movements that preceded Trump. But of course, these are complicated political machinations that have many moving parts. Instead, the NYT insults its readers by pandering technically- and politically- incompetent drivel like “Fashion data was used to build AI models to help Steve Bannon build his insurgency and build the alt-right” -- give me a break.