If for nothing else, yesterday’s Trump rally in Tampa was noteworthy for it’s insanity. Not only did Trump fans surround CNN’s Jim Acosta, screaming “you’re a liar” and “traitor”, but, for the first time ever, it would seem, there was a significant contingent from the far right, conspiratorial fringe in the audience, brandishing their “We […]
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Trump’s legal team readies for war as the threat of impeachment grows
This past March 10, Maggie Haberman reported in the New York Times that Ty Cobb, the White House attorney coordinating the administration’s response to the Mueller investigation, would soon be stepping down. In that same article, Haberman also said that Trump was “in discussions with a veteran Washington lawyer who represented Bill Clinton during the […]
Posted in Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged Bill Clinton, Donald Trump, Emmet Flood, impeachment, Jay Sekulow, John Dowd, lies, Maggie Haberman, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sabotage, Ty Cobb 1 Comment
David Carroll, an academic who studies online privacy, files suit against Cambridge Analytica in hopes of acquiring a copy of his psychographic targeting profile
Last week, when it became public knowledge that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal information of over 50 million unsuspecting Facebook users, allowing the Robert Mercer-owned political consulting firm to build a “psychological warfare weapon” that, according to one of the men involved, existed to exploit the “inner demons” of Americans for political gain, David […]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Uncategorized Also tagged advertising, big data, Bruce Schneier, Cambridge Analytica, Columbia Journalism Review, Columbo, data, data mining, David Carroll, Donald Trump, Facebook, Hillary Clinton, NYC Media Lab, Parsons School of Design, privacy, psychographic targeting, psychological warfare, Robert Mercer, threats to Democracy, weaponization of data 21 Comments