[exDemMom]

In the Miami neighborhood of Little Haiti, Cambridge Analytica regaled residents with messages about the failures of the Clinton Foundation after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, in order to dissuade them from turning out for Clinton. This was one of the goals: to get potential but wavering Clinton voters—skeptical leftists, African-Americans, young women—to stay home. To “suppress” their votes, as one Trump campaign staffer bluntly put it. In these so-called dark posts (paid Facebook ads which appear in the timelines only of users with a particular suitable personality profile), African-Americans, for example, are shown the nineties-era video of Hillary Clinton referring to black youth as “super predators.”

This article tries to make the case that using "big data" is a method to manipulate people. I don't see this as the case at all. In this example, the data was used to specifically target an audience that has been conditioned and propagandized to reflexively vote Democrat. And big data was used to sneak through a bit of information that this group would never have learned on their own. Political junkies know about the deep corruption of the Clintons, and we believe that if everyone knew about it, Hillary would not have a chance at winning the election. This marketing campaign put that belief into action.

Now, if we could harness the power of big data to break through the mountains of liberal propaganda surrounding us, to drive little nuggets of truth into minds shaped by liberal pablum and get them to engage in critical thinking, we could stop the growth of socialism in its tracks. But I don't think big data is nearly as powerful as this article claims. So the fight for freedom goes on.

[EBH]

Maybe ...maybe not. But consider for one second, Trump used this during the campaign. Trump is a smart, smart guy and he has a big war going on right now with MSM.

We do have a law on the books that allows the government to propagandize United States citizens. Democrats for years have used the MSM to do it. We questioned all those crazy women this past weekend truly not understanding the depths of their fears about Trump. ...social media and big data?

Could that same ‘propaganda’ channel be used to circumvent MSM to get the truth out? They tried it during the campaign and if the click thru rate truly was 1400% as claimed, it is a powerful weapon against the ‘fake news MSM.’