Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN points to it as the primary evidence of what Cambridge Analytica was willing to do, especially in Facebook data scandal threads.
What it is
A Channel 4 News undercover investigation in which Cambridge Analytica executives are filmed discussing bribes, honeypots, fake identities and manipulating elections around the world.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2018 to 2019.
What Hacker News said
Strong rec save_ferris · 2019-11 · on “Amazon’s plan for Alexa”
Did you watch the Channel 4 report[0]? The CEO of CA clandestinely advertised far more than just ads for the reporter posing as a potential client. They are in the business of winning elections, through whatever means necessary. He openly talked about things like targeting and entrapping political opponents with blackmail via "honeypots". His deputies made some really interesting statements during that report as well. I highly recommend watching the report, it's a fascinating watch. Based on what he was caught saying on camera, in addition to his deputies, and the reporting around their political campaigns in Africa using propaganda that claimed AIDS would come back if so-and-so were elected
Recommends gt565k · 2018-03 · on “The Cambridge Analytica scandal isn’t a scandal: this is how Facebook works”
Watch the mini documentary of the undercover op by channel 4 [this video] This isn't just data mining, it's straight up misinformation, entrapment, and god knows what else.
Cites m_ke · 2018-03 · on “Facebook’s Surveillance Machine”
Obama had the Obama 2012 app ( [LINK] ). Anyone downloading it knew that the goal of it was to help get Obama elected. CA ( [this video] ) tricked people into giving up their data and used it to spread targeted propaganda. How is this the same?
Cites DonaldFisk · 2018-03 · on “SCL – A Very British Coup”
Undercover reporters investigate Cambridge Analytica: [this video] The information commissioner is still waiting for her request for a search warrant, made on Monday, to be heard by a high court judge: [LINK] Meanwhile, crates with documents have been removed from the building: [LINK] Doesn't look good.
Cites loceng · 2019-05 · on “Gab will become a Mastodon fork”
To have that conversation we'd first have to define what is meant by dissident groups. If a group is known to be hateful with potential for or threatening violence, knowing their plans is a strategy - is counterterrorism. It's akin to police doing stings for drug busts, or perhaps less controversial - for child sex trafficking; should we turn a blind eye to that and not try to infiltrate that to prevent future harm? The ideal situation is everyone feels connected to everyone else and no one willfully will harm others, that's not what happens however when there is tolerance for hate. Hate will fester under surface building its potential energy until it's released - unless it is quelled by bei