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[–] 38 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Other actors creating a misinformation campaign to confuse the electorate. We have seen what Fox news and CNN and the 25 hour news channels have done in the 90s and amplified it and democratized it and made it freely accessible to everyone with an internet connection. Grandma never stood a chance against it.

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  • [–] [S] 31 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    This is true, but it’s also true that Cambridge Analytica specifically utilized military psychological operations tactics to weaponize messaging via social media.

    Facepals et. al. are more virulent and sadistic than they would have been without evil manipulation.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    IDK who Cambridge Analytics is, but since the 1950s the US advertising industry started using military techniques to induce feelings of inadequacy, isolation and hopelessness in viewers, offering products as cures. People want to blame the epidemic of depression on their chosen modern circumstance du jour, but it really comes from a lifetime of conditioning.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 hours ago*

    Cambridge is like combining pysop and public relations along with a huge amount of capital and making a globalized corporate structure to spy on every human in the world. Then using that information to manipulate people's perception for cash and power.

    Just perfectly normal stuff like that.

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