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01 Sep 2017, 8:07 pm

If what that article say is true, then the surprising effectiveness of conservative propaganda of those two last years would found a explanation.
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine

It's certainly worrying that a organization having close ties with politicians has access to so many informations: more that the CIA and NSA; though it don't surprise me. (http://www.theonion.com/video/cias-facebook-program-dramatically-cut-agencys-cos-19753 ) It mean that authoritarian governments would potentially be able to quickly bring down opponents with more efficiency that ever. :pale:


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01 Sep 2017, 8:28 pm

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/6037 ... you-think/

from the article wrote:
More recently, Buzzfeed interviewed a number of ex-Cambridge Analytica employees, as well as other consultants who had seen its work, and found that “the company has never provided evidence that [its psychological approach] even works.”


https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart ... .tq1Pzv1V2

buzzfeed article wrote:
But interviews with 13 former employees, campaign staffers, and executives at other Republican consulting firms who have seen Cambridge Analytica’s work suggest that its psychological approach was not actually used by the Trump campaign and, furthermore, the company has never provided evidence that it even works. Rather than a sinister breakthrough in political technology, the Cambridge Analytica story appears to be part of the traditional contest among consultants on a winning political campaign to get their share of credit — and win future clients.


Sounds like they're peddling snake oil to me.



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02 Sep 2017, 1:23 am

as
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only

on all sides its the money

seeing the burka-d protester-esses at paris-townhall, it was wtf...
is anne hildago or ngo's or UN paying that ?
it wouldn't? ->not with 'semi'-government money, but it always is, be it be by tax cuts for the rich for 'philantropic' (a notion that has no place in taxsystems) undermining

-unrelated- :D



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03 Sep 2017, 6:16 am


the colors?
the propaganda machine against the censure machine ?
google vs google ?



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03 Sep 2017, 11:59 am

Why are some people trying to be cruel or shut down the right? I always get that many people's theme here is that right extremists are "worse" or more "wrong" than left extremists, no matter what. There is no real reason why one "extreme" should be considered actually worse than the other.



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03 Sep 2017, 12:19 pm

Here's something on 'powerful propaganda' and it probably has a lot to do with why Republicans and Democrats are looking so same-ish in the worst ways possible:

The moral of the story - our intelligence agencies are barely connected to any touchstones of constitutional law and the lines of control from the executive and legislative are razor thin. In turn however they've been heavily subsidizing our congress. Hmm....


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