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File this under the Department of Redundancy Dept. — just for good measure.
Instead, Cambridge Analytica’s former director of research [Christopher Wylie, who helped found Cambridge Analytica,] calls his whistleblowing a crisis of conscience.
“It weighs on me that I played a pivotal role in setting up a company that I think has done a lot of harm to the democratic process in a lot of countries,” Wylie said.
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According to Wylie, the project was of particular importance to Steve Bannon, who later served as the chair of Trump’s campaign. He added that the former head of the right-wing media organization Breitbart wanted to use the data netted by Cambridge Analytica to influence and galvanize the views of the American public.
“Steve wanted weapons for his culture war, that’s what he wanted,” Wylie said.
“We offered him a way to accomplish what he wanted to do, which was change the culture of America,” Wylie added.
There’s much more to Wylie’s insider story, so read the NBC article:
by Phil McCausland and Anna R. Schecter, NBC News — Mar 17, 2018
And watch this clip that summarizes Cambridge Analytica methods at micro-targeting social media users — with the ultimate goal of “changing minds” … by pushing our emotional buttons … without our consent.
Cambridge Analytica: Whistleblower reveals data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles
Channel 4 News — Published on Mar 17, 2018
Seriously scary stuff.
(Harvesting all the personal data of a Survey-taker — and everyone in their Facebook Friend’s Network, too.)
This is the virtual world in which we now live. Thanks to the unchecked social media behemoths … whose main product — is Us.