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The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops,
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Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is emerging
instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies specializing in
data analysis and online influence that contract with government agencies. As
they say about hedge funds, if the general public has heard their names that’s
probably not a good sign. But there is now one data analysis company that
anyone who pays attention to the US and UK press has heard of: Cambridge
Analytica. Representatives have boasted that their list of past and current
clients includes the British Ministry of Defense, the US Department of Defense,
the US Department of State, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and NATO.
Nevertheless, they became recognized for just one influence campaign: the one
that helped Donald Trump get elected president of the United States. The kind
of help the company offered has since been the subject of much unwelcome legal
and journalistic scrutiny…. AND MORE
Allan
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