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Cambridge Analytica is also entirely fake, in the sense that it's highly unlikely any votes were affected by it.
by cm2012 3y ago
Cambridge Analytica is also entirely fake, in the sense that it's highly unlikely any votes were affected by it.
- bandyaboot 3y agoI doubt I would ever utter the word seriously to describe something, but operations can fail, no? If it indeed didn’t have any effect, the operation was still pretty shocking and intriguing.
- cm2012 3y agoNot really. It was more a marketing gimmick for the company. The kind of advertising targeting Cambridge did (based on cheap 2010s Era fb personality quiz responders) had absolutely no targeting value. It just sounded like techno magic to journalists. Like imagine a developer consultancy said they used latex to fizzbuzz people's computers to get them to vote for Trump. If you understand advertising targeting, CA makes just as much sense as that.