{"id":4629,"date":"2017-02-26T10:02:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T10:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2017-02-26T10:06:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T10:06:36","slug":"a-facebook-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/blog\/a-facebook-like\/","title":{"rendered":"A Facebook Like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook was the key to the entire campaign, Wigmore explained. A Facebook \u2018like\u2019, he said, was their most \u201cpotent weapon\u201d. \u201cBecause using artificial intelligence, as we did, tells you all sorts of things about that individual and how to convince them with what sort of advert. And you knew there would also be other people in their network who liked what they liked, so you could spread. And then you follow them. The computer never stops learning and it never stops monitoring.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

from: Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media | Politics | The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n

Carole Cadwalladr’s article in today’s Observer, is both fascinating and frightening. The technology used by Cambridge Analytics<\/a>\u00a0is incredibly\u00a0\u00a0powerful the use it has ben put too worrying.\u00a0Andy Wigmore, Leave.EU\u2019s comms director in the quote above doesn’t have a Facebook account quoted in the same article:<\/p>\n

It is creepy! It\u2019s really creepy! It\u2019s why I\u2019m not on Facebook! I tried it on myself to see what information it had on me and I was like, \u2018Oh my God!\u2019 What\u2019s scary is that my kids had put things on Instagram and it picked that up. It knew where my kids went to school.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Facebook was the key to the entire campaign, Wigmore explained. A Facebook \u2018like\u2019, he said, was their most \u201cpotent weapon\u201d. \u201cBecause using artificial intelligence, as we did, tells you all sorts of things about that individual and how to convince them with what sort of advert. 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