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As an outsider to me the worst was targeting people that were paranoid (also not in some technical psychological sense, again as an outsider) while violating ag

• bertil 7y ago
  That would be the worst if it happened. I don’t think that Cambridge Analytica had the ability to do that.
  • mzs 7y ago
    I appreciate your POV, thanks. I do think psychographic profiling was pretty roundly proven by reporting and testimony at this point though. You might be interested in this piece from today though, it takes a bigger view outside CA as well: "It was somewhat surprising that Facebook succeeded in hogging the limelight in a field so rich with villains. The bigger picture…was the way in which the Cambridge Analytica story opened a window onto a new constellation of international billionaires, corrupt politicians, and war profiteers who were apparently amassing enormous power. That story isn’t only about technology, data, and psychographic profiling; it’s also, at root, a story about the consequences of entrenched economic inequality, the privatization of essential public assets and government functions, including even national security, and the challenge to conventional foreign policy posed by the bargains being struck between international kleptocrats…" https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/27/the-oligarch-threat/ https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/08/27/the-oligarch-threat...