Memetic engineering. Welcome to the future. Anybody with a spare half mil can pay to manipulate you. Well… not YOU, of course, but your gullible friend. Your and my ability to conduct our own research and analysis is unquestioned, of course.
Bin Laden had this kind of cash, didn’t he?
«The deal is between SCL and State’s Global Engagement Center. The Center was set up by the Obama administration in 2016 to fight ISIS’s online presence, and the deal with SCL was signed in early 2017.
- When that deal was inked, SCL and Cambridge Analytica had just helped orchestrate a massive upset in the 2016 presidential election, and were viewed as power players in data analytics.»