How Technology is Brainwashing the Planet

[lynnenne]

With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, this right-wing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network.

Based on what readers "like" or click online, this company builds "probability models of how people vote. And then they look at what they can do to influence that." They serve up links to right-wing stories and conspiracy theories - deliberately trying to influence people to vote right-wing. And they are EVERYWHERE.

Comments

[stardreamer]

That would explain why, for a while, every time I posted a link about an atrocity, FB would "suggest" an article about the same thing from a RWA site. I discovered that the "hide" menu includes the option "hide all from [X]", and that got rid of them in surprisingly short order.

[lynnenne]

It might also explain (in part, at least) why so many white women voted for Lord Dampnut. White women over 40 are the biggest demographic on Facebook.