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Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Says Blockchain Can Solve Data Privacy Issue

Brittany Kaiser’s whistleblower in Cambridge Analytica case says blockchain technology could easily solve several issues related to data protection.

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Twitter Bots Helped Trump and Brexit Win, Economic Study Says

Twitter bots may have altered the outcome of two of the world’s most consequential elections in recent years, according to an economic study.

National Bureau of Economic Research working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w24631

This paper studies information diffusion in social media and the role of bots in shaping public opinions. Using Twitter data on the 2016 E.U. Referendum (“Brexit”) and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, we find that diffusion of information on Twitter is largely complete within 1-2 hours. Stronger interactions across agents with similar beliefs are consistent with the “echo chambers” view of social media. Bots have a tangible effect on the tweeting activity of humans but the degree of bots’ influence depends on whether bots provide information consistent with humans’ priors. Overall, our results suggest that the aggressive use of Twitter bots, coupled with the fragmentation of social media and the role of sentiment, could contribute to the vote outcomes.

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Cambridge Analytica is just one part of an entire industry set up around this sort of information. Peter Thiel’s Palantir does much the same general sort of stuff, but Thiel is smart, and does it for the US military and spies, so he is protected, even though Palantir does far more evil.

Cambridge Analytica, FaceBook And Inevitable Abuses That Inevitably Happen

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Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks

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Warum die ideologische Manipulation von #CambridgeAnalytica bis heute Wirkung zeigt - auch und gerade in Ländern der #EU

Image: Courtesy of #AmnestyInternational “Die #AfD mit (besserer) Sachpolitik stellen.” Das war die “Kampfansage” der #CDUCSU-Fraktion im Hinblick auf die Positionen der AfD und deren enormen Stimmenzuwachs. Man könnte das auch mit “Feuer mit Feuer bekämpfen” paraphrasieren. Dass das eine kaum zielführende Idee ist, erschließt sich eigentlich auch schon mit dieser Analogie. (die Analogie ist…

Warum die ideologische Manipulation von #CambridgeAnalytica bis heute Wirkung zeigt - auch und gerade in Ländern der #EU

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Demanda de 8 Mil Millones Contra Mark Zuckerberg y Ejecutivos de Meta por Accionistas

Accionistas de Meta Platforms han presentado una demanda de 8 mil millones de dólares contra Mark Zuckerberg y otros ejecutivos actuales y anteriores de la compañía. La demanda busca compensar a Meta por pérdidas superiores a los $8 mil millones, resultantes de una multa impuesta por la FTC y otros gastos legales, todo ello derivado del cuestionable historial de la empresa en materia de…

Demanda de 8 Mil Millones Contra Mark Zuckerberg y Ejecutivos de Meta por Accionistas