In case I did, I would make sure I don't get pinpointed to, but in the US perhaps look at CFR / state department veterans & advertising corporations' stockholde

In case I did, I would make sure I don't get pinpointed to, but in the US perhaps look at CFR / state department veterans & advertising corporations' stockholders & Google. In Europe traditional news sources there got economically slaughtered & replaced by few big online 1995-2005. This qas a consequence 1970s & 1980s academic networks working closely with US on web, and US then doing what it did with Google. If you can influence what ends up in the social media feed of those deciding about university curriculums and/or most politicians, that's quite powerful also. In Russia & China, there seems to be less hidden, less culture of valuing "free media." --- That public opinion "matters" but gets shaped is very plausible if you consider that most of history it didn't matter unless the public got very angry. Century of Self describes the process before Zuboff. One might argue that control of public opinion was originally more psychoanalytic idea, and then became more Skinnerian with computers.