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The Great British Brexit Robbery: How our Democracy was hijacked, by Carole Cadwalladr

c/europe · u/HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org · 52 points

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If you are interested in this text, you might save not only the link, but the PDF as well - apparently there are ongoing efforts to *de-publish* it completely. (What again was the word we were using for this in USSR times?)

And if you are interested on many more details how "social media" and most smartphone software employs a neverending stream of "brain hacks" to capture our attention by addictive design, amplifying the campaigns of Cambridge Analytica and people behind it like Bannon or Mercer, this is a book you should look into:

"Free Your Mind from Smartphone and Social Media Stress", by Imran Rashid and Søten Kenner, Johm Wiley & Sons, ISBN (print) 978-3-527-51002-3, (epub) 978-3-527-82886-9.

  • title sounds like a self-help book but I think it is immensely political.

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u/homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 8 points

>“That was before we became this dark, dystopian data company that gave the

world Trump,” a former Cambridge Analytica employee who

I’ll call Paul tells me. “It was back when we were still just a

psychological warfare firm.