— Malcolm HarrisIt’s not clear how much the particular work of Cambridge Analytica ended up helping the Trump campaign. All the psychometric targeting based on personality characteristics sounds like bunk to me. But the campaign certainly made use of Facebook, running on the platform like one of Max Levchin’s annoying but prolific Slide apps.
Replicated under Fair Use from Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World by Malcolm Harris.