IRA and Cambridge Analytica — The Magic

There’s a positive side to it, which is this idea that you dream yourself alive. So that kind of interested me with what Prigozhin was able to do and was able to achieve with the Internet Research Agency when I started to look into it and look into the reports say by the Senate Intelligence Committee after the 2016 election and what Cambridge Analytica was doing. There was something quite magical about how Trump himself could get into office after all his crimes against good taste and the rest. Something anti-intuitive about him talking about Mexicans and immigrants and then successfully trolling exactly these immigrants to vote for them.

Source: Podcast Disinfolklore in Executive Orders

The “magical” quality of psychological targeting — Trump getting immigrants to vote for him despite demonising them. The IRA + CA combination is the targeting apparatus.

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