Tag Archives: Robert Mercer

David Carroll, an academic who studies online privacy, files suit against Cambridge Analytica in hopes of acquiring a copy of his psychographic targeting profile

By Mark | March 21, 2018

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, fake news, Hillary Clinton, NYC Media Lab, Parsons School of Design, privacy, psychographic targeting, psychological warfare, threats to Democracy, weaponization of data | 21 Comments

Cambridge Analytica and the Russian prostitute connection

By Mark | March 19, 2018

Remember how, this past weekend, I was telling you about how Facebook had confirmed that, back in 2014, Cambridge Analytica, the political analytics firm owned by far-right hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and managed at the time by Steve Bannon, had harvested the Facebook profiles of approximately 50 million unwitting American voters using the platform, […]

Posted in Corporate Crime, Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Aleksandr Kogan, Alexander Nix, analytics, blackmail, bribery, Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Steele, Christopher Wylie, Devin Nunes, Donald Trump, dossier, election meddling, election rigging, elections, entrapment, fake news, Global Science Research, honeypots, honeytrap, House Intelligence Committee, Mark Turnbull, propaganda, prostitutes, psychological warfare, Russia, Russiagate, SCL Elections, sex workers, Steve Bannon, Ukraine | 98 Comments

Four things you need to know today

By Mark | March 17, 2018

1. Attorney General Jeff Session just fired former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, one of the three senior FBI officials who can corroborate Jim Comey’s allegation that Trump asked him to kill the investigation into Michael Flynn. [The other two men, Jim Rybicki, Comey’s chief of staff, and James Baker, the FBI’s general counsel, had […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 60 Minutes, Aleksandr Kogan, Andrew McCabe, Cambridge, Cambridge Analytica, Christopher Wylie, cyberattacks, Demons, election hacking, election meddling, electrical grid, Facebook, fake ads, fake news, FBI, Global Science Research, hacking, hush money, James Baker, James Comey, Jeff Sessions, Jim Rybicki, John Dingell, John Dowd, Michael Avenatti, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, nuclear power plants, personality test, political ads, porn stars, power plants, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, sanctions, Steve Bannon, Stormy Daniels, thisisyourdigitallife, threats of violence | 37 Comments

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