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[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Other actors creating a misinformation campaign to confuse the electorate. We have seen what Fox news and CNN and the 25 hour news channels have done in the 90s and amplified it and democratized it and made it freely accessible to everyone with an internet connection. Grandma never stood a chance against it.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

This is true, but it’s also true that Cambridge Analytica specifically utilized military psychological operations tactics to weaponize messaging via social media.

Facepals et. al. are more virulent and sadistic than they would have been without evil manipulation.

[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

IDK who Cambridge Analytics is, but since the 1950s the US advertising industry started using military techniques to induce feelings of inadequacy, isolation and hopelessness in viewers, offering products as cures. People want to blame the epidemic of depression on their chosen modern circumstance du jour, but it really comes from a lifetime of conditioning.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cambridge is like combining pysop and public relations along with a huge amount of capital and making a globalized corporate structure to spy on every human in the world. Then using that information to manipulate people's perception for cash and power.

Just perfectly normal stuff like that.

[-] Obviouslywrong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That was a Facebook thing

[-] Malica@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

Our government should have protected the people from this

[-] StabbingSky@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

As with everything wrong with this country, thank you Reagan.

[-] supernicepojo@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They still can!

Edit: we… we still can

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