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They do? What evidence is there to suggest this?
by sidlls 6y ago
They do? What evidence is there to suggest this?
- Mindwipe 6y agoPretty poor evidence generally, mostly on the say so of snake oil salesmen trying to convince political campaigns to pay them handsomely to do so with extremely uncertain results. I note the conspiracy theory that Cambridge Analytica threw the Brexit referendum via Facebook has essentially completely collapsed over the last month or so. CA certainly wanted their clients to think that such a thing was possible. They were fantasists, for money.
- jen20 6y ago> theory that Cambridge Analytica threw the Brexit referendum via Facebook has essentially completely collapsed over the last month or so. You have to have a pretty warped view on proceedings for this to be the case.
- Mindwipe 6y agoYou really don't. I am certainly not trying to argue that Brexit is a good thing. But the CA narrative has completely fallen apart. https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/10/how-cambridge-analytica-scandal-unravelled https://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/social-media/2020/... https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2847/documents/27859/default/ https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/2847/documents... The ICO spent three years investigating CA, and the report is very clear that the findings were that they had no effect.