I suggest reading Yasha Levine's "Surveillance Valley" for broader
context and sanity restoration in general.
This targeted ideologizing has been going on for decades, and rather
intensified in the last one. The notion that it was somehow just now
applied by a conservative outfit is ridiculous - it's like saying that
Las Vegas invented gambling.
Everything described in the article is invisible drop in the sea of what
those controlling the infrastructure are doing every second of the day,
including this Sunday.
But there are few nice touches - depicting Facebook as a victim and
having outsiders doing the evil. Poor Facebook.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-we-spent-1m-harvesting-millions-of-facebook-profiles-video
Voice of Christopher Wylie, the 28 year-old hipster data scientist:
"We spent a million dollars harvesting tens of millions of Facebook
profiles, and those profiles were used as the basis of the algorithms
that became the foundation of Cambridge Analytica itself...
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