Term Project Work Time Jan 18 + 19 + 20 Re: Assign 18 Teams Dustin - The Great Hack - Netflix Thursday Jan 21 - Intro: A documentary about the rise and fall of 'Cambridge Analytica,' the British consulting company that fed the online Trump propaganda machine and was also linked to affecting the results and outcome regarding Brexit. "The Great Hack" a documentary about data-mining, fake-news propaganda, and the 2016 election. (Trump). Highlights: Cambridge Analytica not only got the data that the public shared on social media, but according to the terms of their EULA ( end-user license agreement) , they also were able to scrape data from the public profiles of a user’s social graph. That distinction may seem fine, but the company was able to use that data to build out psychological profiles of the American voter (possibly and most likely significantly affecting the 2016 US Election outcomes in favour of Trump). Main Character/Focus: Brittany Kaiser. Kaiser, previ
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