The Great Hack Archived Message
Posted by margo on August 21, 2019, 4:11 pm, in reply to "You lost, get used to it"
Have you watched "The Great Hack" on Netflix? A must-see documentary, no matter where you stand on the issue. Some say this documentary exposes the infighting between pro-and anti-Brexit elite power-players.... The pro-Brexit crew spent millions influencing the vote via Cambridge Analytica's powerful online strategies .. and succeeded. Those against Brexit give Guardian journalist Carole Cadwalladr the strategic leaks. She gets to expose Cambridge Analytica's documented role: the op is then closed down.
Previous Message From Tech magazine: The U.K.’s referendum decision to leave the European Union, in fact, became “the Petri dish” for a Cambridge Analytica (CA) experiment. A political consultancy, led by Eton-educated CEO Alexander Nix, applied to the democratic operations of the U.S. and U.K., and many other countries, over a chilling 20+ year history techniques normally used by “psyops” operatives in Afghanistan. The Petri-dish of Brexit worked. Millions of adverts, explains the documentary, targeted individuals, exploiting fear and anger, to switch them from “persuadables,” as CA called them, into passionate advocates for, first Brexit in the U.K., and then Trump later on. Switching to the U.S., the filmmakers show how CA worked directly with Trump’s “Project Alamo” campaign, spending a million dollars a day on Facebook ads ahead of the 2016 election. The film expertly explains the timeline of how CA first worked off Ted Cruz’s campaign, and nearly propelled that lack-luster candidate into first place in the Republican nominations. It was then that the Trump campaign picked up on CA’s military-like operation. After loading up the psychographic survey information CA obtained from Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, the world had become their oyster. Or, perhaps more accurately, their oyster farm. [Guardian's Carole Cadwalladr shows...] There is a thread connecting to Breitbart owner Steve Bannon. There is a thread connecting them to Cambridge Analytica. ... Created for Netflix by Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer, these Egyptian-Americans made “The Square,” about the Egyptian revolution of 2011. To them, the way Cambridge Analytica applied its methods to online campaigning was just as much a revolution as Egyptians toppling a dictator from Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square. For them, the huge irony is that “psyops,” or psychological operations, used on Muslim populations in Iraq and Afghanistan [and Arab Spring] ended up being used to influence Western elections.
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Message Thread:
- More evidence of how badly Brexit will hurt the 'working class.' - dovetailjoint August 21, 2019, 8:45 am
- Re: More evidence of how badly Brexit will hurt the 'working class.' - dovetailjoint August 21, 2019, 8:47 am
- Re: More evidence of how badly Brexit will hurt the 'working class.' - margo August 21, 2019, 1:36 pm
- Re: More evidence of how badly Brexit will hurt the 'working class.' - johnlilburne August 21, 2019, 1:53 pm
- The Irish government is not happy with Johnson - Mary August 21, 2019, 2:24 pm
- It isn't a binary choice - Keith-264 August 21, 2019, 2:34 pm
- Re: It isn't a binary choice - Ken Waldron August 21, 2019, 3:25 pm
- You lost, get used to it - Keith-264 August 21, 2019, 3:43 pm
- Re: You lost, get used to it - johnlilburne August 21, 2019, 3:50 pm
- Re: You lost, get used to it - Ken Waldron August 21, 2019, 4:01 pm
- The Great Hack - margo August 21, 2019, 4:11 pm
- I'm scotch independent. Haven't drunk any in years. Shall cheer Scottish independence though, when - - Rhisiart Gwilym August 21, 2019, 4:55 pm
- Re: More evidence of how badly Brexit will hurt the 'working class.' - margo August 21, 2019, 2:40 pm
- If all ties to the EU are cut by BoJit how do they access criminal records- pratts! nm - CJ August 21, 2019, 6:14 pm
- 'an unprecedented partnership' - margo August 21, 2019, 6:30 pm
- In the Peterloo Apologist? Well, fancy that! - Keith-264 August 22, 2019, 9:45 am
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