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

[lynnenne]

Really?? I had no idea Nixon did that sort of shit (although I'm not the least bit surprised). What kind of techniques did they use back then? I mean, I lived through it but I was just a kid at the time.

I bought a DW subscription last month for that very reason.

[sathari]

If you can put hands on a copy of All the President's Men, and also H.R. Haldeman's The Ends of Power, (Haldeman! Who described himself as "Nixon's SOB!") you have serious business information about the political techniques involved. (IIRC, All the President's Men described an instance of a strategic leveraging of Nixonian/Republican political position by what's now called "snail-mail".)