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What always amazed me about Cambridge Analytica is that the media onslaught only started almost a year (cant reclal excactly but a long time) after the presenta
by hetspookjee 7y ago
What always amazed me about Cambridge Analytica is that the media onslaught only started almost a year (cant reclal excactly but a long time) after the presentation was shared online, it already garnered quite some views when I saw i for the first time. I remembered watching the entire presentation and was amazed by the depth of it all, but amazed as well how almost noone else seemed to care about the presentation.
I couldn't find any news agencies reporting on it whatsoever and I didn't understand why. I still have a hard time to believe that it took so long for the media attention to catch on.
- sonnyblarney 7y agoThis is about narratives. Tons of facts are out there in the wild, waiting to make enough noise that they hit the mainstream press, when they pick up each others stories and it goes global. A single tweet from way back can do this. This is why the press has so much power, ultimately, they decide where 1 billion eyeballs will be pointed (and where they won't). For this reason I check the headlines from a lot of different sources; it's amazing what doesn't get picked up.