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Mindf*ck : Cambridge Analytica and the plot to break America / Christopher Wylie.
Summary:
"Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer's money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals--in excess of 87 million--to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America's soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground."--Amazon.
Record details
- ISBN: 1984854631
- ISBN: 9781984854636
- Physical Description: 269 pages ; 25 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2019]
- Copyright: ℗♭2019
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | anf 324.702 wyl (Text) | 35194014313944 | Adult non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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"Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer's money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it hadharvested on individuals--in excess of 87 million--to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America's soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground."--Amazon. - Random House, Inc.
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.
âMindf*ck demonstrates how digital influence operations, when they converged with the nasty business of politics, managed to hollow out democracies.ââThe Washington Post
Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analyticaâs âAmerican operations,â which were driven by Steve Bannonâs vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercerâs money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individualsâin excess of 87 millionâto disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within Americaâs soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground.
Christopher Wylie might have seemed an unlikely figure to be at the center of such an operation. Canadian and liberal in his politics, he was only twenty-four when he got a job with a London firm that worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense and was charged putatively with helping to build a team of data scientists to create new tools to identify and combat radical extremism online. In short order, those same military tools were turned to political purposes, and Cambridge Analytica was born.
Wylieâs decision to become a whistleblower prompted the largest data-crime investigation in history. His story is both exposé and dire warning about a sudden problem born of very new and powerful capabilities. It has not only laid bare the profound vulnerabilitiesâand profound carelessnessâin the enormous companies that drive the attention economy, it has also exposed the profound vulnerabilities of democracy itself. What happened in 2016 was just a trial run. Ruthless actors are coming for your data, and they want to control what you think.