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Title Mindfck : Cambridge Analytica and the plot to break America / Christopher Wylie
Imprint New York : Random House, [2019]
©2019

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Edition First edition
Descript 269 pages 25 cm
Note For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers. Mindfck goes deep inside Cambridge Analyticas American operations, which were driven by Steve Bannons vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercers money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individualsin excess of 87 millionto disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within Americas soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground. Christopher Wylie might have seemed an unlikely figure to be at the center of such an operation. Canadian and liberal in his politics, he was only twenty-four when he got a job with a London firm that worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense and was charged putatively with helping to build a team of data scientists to create new tools to identify and combat radical extremism online. In short order, those same military tools were turned to political purposes, and Cambridge Analytica was born. Wylies decision to become a whistleblower prompted the largest data-crime investigation in history. His story is both exposé and dire warning about a sudden problem born of very new and powerful capabilities. It has not only laid bare the profound vulnerabilitiesand profound carelessnessin the enormous companies that drive the attention economy, it has also exposed the profound vulnerabilities of democracy itself. What happened in 2016 was just a trial run. Ruthless actors are coming for your data, and they want to control what you think
Content Genesis -- Lessons in failure -- We fight terror in Prada -- Steve from America -- Cambridge Analytica -- Trojan horses -- The dark triad -- From Russia with likes -- Crimes against democracy -- The apprentice -- Coming out -- Revelations -- Epilogue: on regulation: a note to legislators
Subject Facebook (Firm)
Cambridge Analytica Ltd
2010-talet
Facebook
Valkampanjer
Valfusk
Presidentval
Dataskydd
Big data
Informationssamhället
Internet
Marknadsföring via internet
Internetreklam
Fejkade nyheter
Fake news -- Social aspects
Sociala medier
Political campaigns -- Corrupt practices -- United States
Internet in political campaigns -- United States
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 2016
Förenta staterna
USA
Classmark 324.702854678
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