Beast of Burden
The Obama comparisons are well off from what I understand of the technicals.
The follow up interviews have really fleshed out how dirty CA are, as for their effectiveness - in the right circumstances they seem to have pushed marginals over the edge at least once or twice.
Shub-Niggurath, Please
I'm sure I read somewhere that several of the subpoenas issued by Mueller were headed for the UK, but no-one knows who for yet - anyone heard anything further on this?
Carole Cadwalladr's been doing some great work (in addition to having a superb name) - were you thinking of this specifically? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...raps-electionsOriginally Posted by droid
The great piece she did last autumn about the Farage-Trump-Assange connection made me wonder if one or two of Mueller's UK-bound subpoenas could be for people with a rather high public profile. Maybe that's too much to hope though.
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a monkey that will go ape
alrite, different from Bernays, who wouldn't have freelanced for the USSR. but is CA really the first play dirty/psyops private sector election contractor?
Beyond CIA etc coups I don't really know the broader history of election influencing, but I suspect not
continue to think the only real significant innovation is big data/data science.
a monkey that will go ape
otoh today is another strong data point for the sky is falling at FB, tho still early days
a monkey that will go ape
do agree w/leo about the joy of seeing these assholes get caught with their hands in the cookie jar
yurp
There's surely some truth to this. Obama was widely lauded for his use of "big data" and campaign analytics. I remember a Washington Post headline: "Big Data President" (not meant as criticism).
a monkey that will go ape
also I like all of us I'd bet have no actual idea about the truth of CA's claims in re its own efficacy but I wouldn't be surprised if they're bullshit
the whole thing has always come across a bit like snake oil
a monkey that will go ape
that is 100% true I remember it quite well. also universally favorable contrasting it w/the Romney's campaign lack of same.
obv no one was accusing his campaign of stealing data etc, but it also speaks to how much more innocent the world was about these issues just 6ish years ago
yurp
also theres something fundamental about the modern web here. it's based around targeted, data-heavy, quasi-surveillance-state advertising. with the CA scandal you can pretend thats an abuse of the platform rather than its essence.
Beast of Burden
Beast of Burden
I honestly cant think of another instance of non-state directed electoral interference, allowing of course for the fact that this may not be non-state at all.
Beast of Burden
About 11% total drop now, on top of the loss of new US users for the first time ever in January.
Beast of Burden
This is the argument for effectiveness.
The company’s head of data, Alex Tayler, added: “When you think about the fact that Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3m votes but won the electoral college vote that’s down to the data and the research.
“You did your rallies in the right locations, you moved more people out in those key swing states on election day. That’s how he won the election.”
Another executive, Mark Turnbull, managing director of Cambridge Analytica’s political division, was recorded saying: “He won by 40,000 votes in three states. The margins were tiny.”
Beast of Burden
Nix suspended. He's finished.
yurp
this article in the new statesman is good, seems to have a handle on the technical side of what happened but puts it in its wider context: https://www.newstatesman.com/science...ere-no-scandal
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