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Companies harvesting the data and using it to build extremely correct psychological profiles, which will then be used to successfully manipulate election result
by wafflemaker 2y ago
Companies harvesting the data and using it to build extremely correct psychological profiles, which will then be used to successfully manipulate election results.
It has already happened btw.
- baxtr 2y agoThanks, that’s very specific and actually happened. Good point
- Dystakruul 2y ago[1] Overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_d... [2] Documentary: "The Great Hack" (2019) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4736550/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4736550/
- dfawcus 2y agoWhich elections would those be, in which country, and which candidate benefited?
- adastra22 2y agoLook up Cambridge Analytics and the Trump campaign in 2016.
- doublepg23 2y agoI think you missed the firmware update from 2020 when we decided American elections are not rigged.
- adastra22 2y agoThis isn’t about rigging elections. Nobody thought the 2016 election was rigged. What happened was hyper specific advertising profiles for voters, generated from all the info on Facebook, were used to customize person-specific political campaigns. If you were in a key swing district, you would’ve got nonstop ads for Trump that told you he was going to do X, Y, and Z, where those happened to be the exact three political issues you cared most about. It is widely believed in political science circles to have been what led to the surprise Trump victory. This isn’t rigging an election because real votes were cast and counted. However is it still a fair election if the electorate doesn’t have access to sufficient information so as to make an informed choice? That is the issue at stake here.