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Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 03:30 PM Mar 2018

Guardian: The Cambridge Analytica Files I created Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/data-war-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-faceook-nix-bannon-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw

"In the history of bad ideas, this turned out to be one of the worst. The job was research director across the SCL group, a private contractor that has both defence and elections operations. Its defence arm was a contractor to the UK’s Ministry of Defence and the US’s Department of Defense, among others. Its expertise was in “psychological operations” – or psyops – changing people’s minds not through persuasion but through “informational dominance”, a set of techniques that includes rumour, disinformation and fake news."


This is a frightening article. The war we dare not mention is CLASS WAR, and the vultures are winning. We need to wake up and stop them.
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Guardian: The Cambridge Analytica Files I created Steve Bannons psychological warfare tool (Original Post) Generic Other Mar 2018 OP
Facebook has been weaponized. dalton99a Mar 2018 #1
They profiled us Generic Other Mar 2018 #5
r'd poboy2 Mar 2018 #2
K&R! Anon-C Mar 2018 #3
Facebook is Toxic. Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #4
Even with all ads and privacy settings locked down Generic Other Mar 2018 #6
Our Grand Daughter found that out last night. Wellstone ruled Mar 2018 #7

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
5. They profiled us
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 04:46 PM
Mar 2018

with personality tests and other click bait where we gave them permission to access our friend lists, then they sold the data to the Russians. Worse they made multiple unencrypted copies of the data that they acknowledge could have gone anywhere.

And one of the lowlifes they worked for was Bannon. He is the sleaziest one of the bunch.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
6. Even with all ads and privacy settings locked down
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 04:52 PM
Mar 2018

they found backdoors. Came tracking crap all over, sludge stuck to the boots of our friends and relatives!

I wonder what can be done now? If this was a sci-fi movie, I would expect we would have to destroy the mainframe and go back to the stone age.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. Our Grand Daughter found that out last night.
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 05:03 PM
Mar 2018

She went to her FB to talk to her Sister,whole pile of unwanted crap popped up.

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