Connecting the dots of psychological cyberwarfare - Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and Trump

[Anonymous]

https://narativ.org/2017/09/05/psychological-warfare-cambridge-analytica/

Psychologist Michal Kosinski switched on the TV in his Zurich hotel room on the morning of November ninth. The headlines were all about Donald Trump’s against-all-odds win in the U.S. presidential election. The news filled the Polish-born academic with dread, Kosinski told Das Magazine. The 34-year-old psychologist was sure of one thing: the scientific model he had created helped elect Trump.

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In a 2012 study, Kosinski and two colleagues at Cambridge University were able to predict any person’s race, political affiliations and sexual orientation by analyzing someone’s social media activity.

While at Cambridge, Kosinski met fellow researcher Aleksandr Kogan. Russian-born Kogan asked about using Kosinski’s method for election manipulation. “The whole thing began to stink,” Kosinski told German Das Magazine.

Kosinski wanted nothing to do with using his research for malevolent means and broke off contact with Kogan. Since then, Kosinski has travelled the world lecturing about the dangers of ‘big data’ manipulation warning it can “threaten the welfare, freedom, or even the lives of men.”

Kogan, who has since changed his name to Alexandr Specter, had very different plans for his colleagues’ research.

After the invasion of the Ukraine, a Russian born researcher at Cambridge University began harvesting private data of 30 million U.S. Facebook users for Cambridge Analytica.

In 2014, Kogan founded “Global Science Research”, which was funded by London-based Scientific Communications Laboratory (SCL) and its subsidiary Cambridge Analytica. Kogan’s company hired 185,000 Americans to take an online survey and download a Facebook app. Once downloaded, the app gave Kogan information on 30 million unsuspecting Facebook users who were Facebook friends with the original survey-takers, according to The Intercept. Kogan had used Kosinski’s model to build an an algorithm to profile American voters.

Must read this article with patience. It provides the dots that connect how Russian misinformation campaign could have been delivered to american voters through facebook to sway our election. I am sad beyond belief that an american ultra-progressive invention could be at the center of the downfall of our country.

[Anonymous]

I think you are giving this too much credit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you are giving this too much credit.

What am I giving too much credit to?

[Anonymous]

I would like OFA to respond.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you are giving this too much credit.

What am I giving too much credit to?

FB doesn't have that much power

[Anonymous]

OP has a conspiracy theory. Admin normally doesn't allow conspiracy theories. Let's see about this one...

[Anonymous]

Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

Whoa. I bet that's it! Facebook sold the Cambridge Analytica ads to the targetted people. Is any part of this illegal? I mean, don't stores have ways to monitor what we look at also?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

Whoa. I bet that's it! Facebook sold the Cambridge Analytica ads to the targetted people. Is any part of this illegal? I mean, don't stores have ways to monitor what we look at also?

^ I meant to say that is a good guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

Whoa. I bet that's it! Facebook sold the Cambridge Analytica ads to the targetted people. Is any part of this illegal? I mean, don't stores have ways to monitor what we look at also?

Add that to the data mining that was shared between the Trump server and the Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health servers.

Side note, Mueller has all of the IP addresses from Facebook and AWS. If there is a connection, he will find it.

Donny Jr admitted to the collusion in his prepared statement. Particularly if you dismiss the idea that nothing came of that meeting. Trump was tweeting incessantly immediately after that meeting about Hillary's 30,000 emails and Russia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

Whoa. I bet that's it! Facebook sold the Cambridge Analytica ads to the targetted people. Is any part of this illegal? I mean, don't stores have ways to monitor what we look at also?

Add that to the data mining that was shared between the Trump server and the Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health servers.

Side note, Mueller has all of the IP addresses from Facebook and AWS. If there is a connection, he will find it.

Donny Jr admitted to the collusion in his prepared statement. Particularly if you dismiss the idea that nothing came of that meeting. Trump was tweeting incessantly immediately after that meeting about Hillary's 30,000 emails and Russia.

I'm sorry; what is AWS? Do you have a link to today's testimony admitting collusion? It sounds as though there many more dots. I am not ready to start connecting them with the information you put out there. Sounds bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

Whoa. I bet that's it! Facebook sold the Cambridge Analytica ads to the targetted people. Is any part of this illegal? I mean, don't stores have ways to monitor what we look at also?

Add that to the data mining that was shared between the Trump server and the Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health servers.

Side note, Mueller has all of the IP addresses from Facebook and AWS. If there is a connection, he will find it.

Donny Jr admitted to the collusion in his prepared statement. Particularly if you dismiss the idea that nothing came of that meeting. Trump was tweeting incessantly immediately after that meeting about Hillary's 30,000 emails and Russia.

I'm sorry; what is AWS? Do you have a link to today's testimony admitting collusion? It sounds as though there many more dots. I am not ready to start connecting them with the information you put out there. Sounds bad.

Don’t worry.... Maddow will make her dubious connections on her broadcast tonight, no doubt. She will do this as she sips on a Moscow Mule or a Black Russian. And, while eating a salad with Russian dressing. It’s what she does, or tries to do. She draws the dots, then connects them, even when there is no dot to connect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is this connected to Facebook selling ads to the Russians that was on another thread? Geez.... there are so many conspiracy theories I am losing track here.
The Russians must be so darned satisfied with the job they are doing at undermining our trust in government.

Whoa. I bet that's it! Facebook sold the Cambridge Analytica ads to the targetted people. Is any part of this illegal? I mean, don't stores have ways to monitor what we look at also?

Add that to the data mining that was shared between the Trump server and the Alfa Bank and Spectrum Health servers.

Side note, Mueller has all of the IP addresses from Facebook and AWS. If there is a connection, he will find it.

Donny Jr admitted to the collusion in his prepared statement. Particularly if you dismiss the idea that nothing came of that meeting. Trump was tweeting incessantly immediately after that meeting about Hillary's 30,000 emails and Russia.

I'm sorry; what is AWS? Do you have a link to today's testimony admitting collusion? It sounds as though there many more dots. I am not ready to start connecting them with the information you put out there. Sounds bad.

Don’t worry.... Maddow will make her dubious connections on her broadcast tonight, no doubt. She will do this as she sips on a Moscow Mule or a Black Russian. And, while eating a salad with Russian dressing. It’s what she does, or tries to do. She draws the dots, then connects them, even when there is no dot to connect.

That is seriously my biggest pet peeve. I can't watch her after her hour long tedious draw out pointing to the fact that Donald Trump paid his taxes. It was al,ost a bigger let down than "Who is Faster: Shark or Michael Phelps" this past shark week.

[Anonymous]

in the end, Cambridge Analytica is going to be main conduit for Russian influence on the election. I bet dollars to donuts, whatever algorithm they were using to micro target their fake news articles to voters was the method. the mere fact that trump voters were citing information from fabricated articles as the reason they opposed HRC is election influence. fact is, Trump has been saying the election is rigged his entire campaign. as the campaign showed, anytime Trump accused his opponent of something, he was always guilty of the same thing. The only way Trump could be elected is not through vote rigging, the system is airtight against that, but through voter influence via psychological warfare type shit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:in the end, Cambridge Analytica is going to be main conduit for Russian influence on the election. I bet dollars to donuts, whatever algorithm they were using to micro target their fake news articles to voters was the method. the mere fact that trump voters were citing information from fabricated articles as the reason they opposed HRC is election influence. fact is, Trump has been saying the election is rigged his entire campaign. as the campaign showed, anytime Trump accused his opponent of something, he was always guilty of the same thing. The only way Trump could be elected is not through vote rigging, the system is airtight against that, but through voter influence via psychological warfare type shit.

Yup