Cambridge Analytica, great British success or a really evil organisation?

[SueEllen]

Democrats did not steal data, and they did not get it enhanced by foreign power who hacked electoral rolls and matched people's affiliations with their Facebook accounts

Big difference

You really need to read up on how to re-write British history like the victors the British are.

[d000hg]

Seeing as the British are inherently evil because we are the only country to have raped and pillaged our way around the globe (the Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, French all being saints) then this is a Great British Success as it's taking our basic moral decrepitude and making it work in the modern age.

That's a nice horse you rode in on, nice and high.

[ladymuck]

That's a nice horse you rode in on, nice and high.

Absolutely. Up on my high horse is the best place to be. Don't hear the squeals of the peasants when I trample on them.

[minestrone]

We're only talking about this as the 'wrong type' of people used it.

And I don't believe anyone who uses Facebook regularly does not understand that their information is used for marketing purposes.

[SueEllen]

We're only talking about this as the 'wrong type' of people used it.

And I don't believe anyone who uses Facebook regularly does not understand that their information is used for marketing purposes.

You really believe the average person has such intelligence?

[AtW]

And I don't believe anyone who uses Facebook regularly does not understand that their information is used for marketing purposes.

Marketing purposes (commercial) is one thing, but how many people who voted for Trump and Brexit know that they were subject to direct manipulation using fraudulent info generated by hostile power or stolen by it (and modified for better effect)? Vote suppression is another issue - that should be illegal practice, just why it isn't I don't know.

[minestrone]

I believe that pretty much everyone that uses Facebook understands the rules, half of everyone's feeds are adverts so it's not as if they hide it.

I don't expect anyone to understand the data graphing and the deep learning tulip but, data sold to advertisers, yes I think they all knew.

What this story presents to me more than anything else is the daily rage news cycle. We're being presented with fact, known fact about Facebook has always operated and somehow there is now outrage built up around that.

I see the newspapers and TV stations that are building this outrage as having a pretty strong motive to diminish the reputation of online advertising. Funny that.

Tomorrow we'll be given some other daily news to rage about.

[minestrone]

Marketing purposes (commercial) is one thing, but how many people who voted for Trump and Brexit know that they were subject to direct manipulation using fraudulent info generated by hostile power or stolen by it (and modified for better effect)? Vote suppression is another issue - that should be illegal practice, just why it isn't I don't know.

Most of that is made up, no evidence of any of it.

[Jog On]

Marketing purposes (commercial) is one thing, but how many people who voted for Trump and Brexit know that they were subject to direct manipulation using fraudulent info generated by hostile power or stolen by it (and modified for better effect)? Vote suppression is another issue - that should be illegal practice, just why it isn't I don't know.

The notion that certain people voted a certain way because they were 'hoodwinked' and too stupid to make an informed choice is getting very boring.

We voted to leave
She lost
Get over it

I very clearly remember during both elections that the media and social networks were massively biased towards the sides that lost - and they still lost

These elections are going the way they are because the establishment have failed the people and the people have had enough.

For the record - here is:

And of course there is this January 2016 admission from John Podesta telling the Facebook COO that he is looking forward to "working with you to elect the first woman President of the United States."

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...lary-win-badly

and Obama's Former Campaign Director Makes Bombshell Claim: Facebook Was "On Our Side"

But keep on bleating about fake news/Russian hackers & trolls etc.

[Dark Black]

I believe that pretty much everyone that uses Facebook understands the rules, half of everyone's feeds are adverts so it's not as if they hide it...

Before I was kicked off FB for not using my real name, I never got adverts on my timeline.. Odd that