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Posted on 06/10/2017 5:43:02 PM PDT by canalabamian
A GOP donor who once had ties to IBM is the man behind the millions of Twitter bots President Trump counts on as followers who could be employed to target voters with misleading or fake news on social media.
In order for it to work, the scheme relies on the quiet guidance of Robert Mercer, a reclusive Republican mega-donor and staunch Trump supporter, sources told the Daily News.
Mercer, who during the campaign with help from his daughter Rebekah, played a below-the-radar — but integral — role in raising money for Trump and connected him with critical figures like Stephen Bannon.
He’s a former computer scientist who, decades ago, helped build the technology at IBM that the computer giant would later use to create its Watson super-computer. He also helped other companies like Apple form the basis for its Siri platform.
Trump, meanwhile, has accrued among his 30 million Twitter followers — 15 million of which are actually bots that experts have told the Daily News could be “weaponized” to spread fake and misleading news stories that favor the White House or distract from the scandals it now faces.
But with the subtle introduction of advanced technology, by individuals familiar with artificial intelligence, their effectiveness as it pertains to targeting users and interacting with them could escalate rapidly.
“Fooling humans into doing things in the electronic realm turned out to be really easy,” said Simon Crosby, the chief technology officer at a firm called Bromium, pointing to well-documented campaigns that are thought to have influenced the 2016 presidential race and the Brexit referendum in the United Kingdom.
“But with a few extra steps that seem available in the right circles, it could get even easier,” he added.
Trump used decades old IBM technology to make people vote for him. /s
The NY Daily News is a longtime lefty rag.
The level of project with this article is amazing. Hillary had an army of paid people who pushed messages on social media. After the election that same group morphed into Shareblue run by David Brock. They have a budget of 7 million a month and their trolls show up everywhere.
Trump’s online supporters by contrast were/are completely organic. No centralized messaging, going off topic frequently with little to no order in how they operated.
Mercer was originally a huge backer of Ted Cruz. He in fact gave control of the PAC to a Glenn Beck affiliate. That’s why you saw Glenn Beck with Cruz at the rallies.
Yes it is, and really the only reason I bothered to post it. You can bet that if a commie/socialist/democrat makes and accusation its because they are already doing it.
all this tells me is that a lot of the political activitie on line by democratic operative takes place in the form they tried to sat trump was doing.....PROJECTION on the part o0f bwho ever wrote the article.
all this tells me is that a lot of the political activitie on line by democratic operative takes place in the form they tried to sat trump was doing.....PROJECTION on the part o0f bwho ever wrote the article.
Lol real fake news
all this tells me is that a lot of the political activitie on line by democratic operative takes place in the form they tried to say trump was doing.....PROJECTION on the part 0f who ever wrote the article.
What’s next, that Trump is a Hydra operative?
Oh, you mean the same ones who regularly show up at any and all of his rallies, by the tens of thousands?...Those "bots"?
Wtf? One doesn’t need a mega donor or a computer genius to create bots for social media. You just need one typical engineer or hacker.
If true, so what?
Both Barry and Cankles had fake Twitter and fakebook accounts.
5.56mm
Fake news and more innuendo: “..who could be employed to target voters with misleading or fake news on social media..” Note it doesn’t say they have been employed to do that, but “could be”. The Left is pitiful.
Fake news and more innuendo: “..who could be employed to target voters with misleading or fake news on social media..” Note it doesn’t say they have been employed to do that, but “could be”. The Left is pitiful.
“..sources told the Daily News..”
probably a wino down at skid row.
The Daily News is a scum newspaper and has always been. If they ever publish an accurate story it is by accident.
Oh, Thank Gawd! I would’ve thought those EVIL Koch Brothers were behind this!
Whew!
*SMIRK*
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