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If you didn't feel the machine in all those other cases it has gone full swing since then, that just means these two attempts were extremely crude by comparison

If you didn't feel the machine in all those other cases it has gone full swing since then, that just means these two attempts were extremely crude by comparison (and they were indeed). But Cambridge Analytica has really ushered us into a new era of manipulation, where most citizens don't even have the slightest chance of perceiving how they are getting played by nefarious actors. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. Today we have stuff like the Saudis buying access to Twitter/X after getting busted for planting literal double agents inside the company. The level and sophistication of propaganda we see right now is unprecedented in human history.

fooblaster 1y ago
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- dc396 1y ago
  An interesting assertion. A quick Google search didn't turn up anything definitive for me. Do you have references?
  - fooblaster 1y ago
    One of many: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/researcher-in-facebook-scandal-says-my-work-was-worthless-to-cambridge-analytic-idUSKBN1HV13S/ https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/researcher-in-fac... see comments of hacker news threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800031
- hulitu 1y ago
  > Cambridge analytica had absolutely no impact on the election whatsoever, Of course not. They weren't even active on Facebook, they were selling potatoes at the local market. /s
- sigmoid10 1y ago
  >Cambridge analytica had absolutely no impact on the election whatsoever Say the guys who were implicated and facing public humiliation or even punishment. Meta has already paid billions of dollars in fines and settlements because of this, so all these people not covering their asses would actually be surprising. But if you look at the raw evidence uncovered during the senate hearings, there is no doubt that it had a major effect on the election and beyond.

fooblaster 1y ago

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dc396 1y ago
An interesting assertion. A quick Google search didn't turn up anything definitive for me. Do you have references?
- fooblaster 1y ago
  One of many: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/researcher-in-facebook-scandal-says-my-work-was-worthless-to-cambridge-analytic-idUSKBN1HV13S/ https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/researcher-in-fac... see comments of hacker news threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800031 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20800031
hulitu 1y ago
> Cambridge analytica had absolutely no impact on the election whatsoever, Of course not. They weren't even active on Facebook, they were selling potatoes at the local market. /s
sigmoid10 1y ago
>Cambridge analytica had absolutely no impact on the election whatsoever Say the guys who were implicated and facing public humiliation or even punishment. Meta has already paid billions of dollars in fines and settlements because of this, so all these people not covering their asses would actually be surprising. But if you look at the raw evidence uncovered during the senate hearings, there is no doubt that it had a major effect on the election and beyond.