Tuesday, April 9, 2019

Facebook & Twitter Notes, April 9, 2019

Christopher Wylie, who worked for data firm Cambridge Analytica, reveals how personal information was taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters in order to target them with personalised political advertisements.
At the time the company was owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Donald Trump’s key adviser, Steve Bannon.
Its CEO is Alexander Nix How Cambridge Analytica turned Facebook ‘likes’ into a lucrative political tool ► https://www.theguardian.com/technolog...


Cambridge Analytica's ruthless bid to sway the vote in Nigeria links the Guardian report where I came across this video. 

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'The rhino's anatomy suggested that it lived in pretty open, grassy plains, grazing almost entirely on grass,' explains Adrian. 'Its unusual teeth look very strongly adapted for that kind of grazing as well.' By studying the stable isotope ratios in the rhino's teeth, which involves looking at the levels of different carbon and nitrogen isotopes and then comparing them to different plants, the researchers were able determine what the animals were eating. The results confirm that the Siberian unicorn was most likely grazing on tough, dry grasses.

The Siberian unicorn lived at the same time as modern humans by Josh Davis. First published 26 November 2018


The NY Times is keeping up as the administration's flow chart upheavals churn away.









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Hold your nose and read this for yourself.
My command of language is too weak to compose a synopsis without expletives.

Two attorneys general from the District of Columbia and Maryland have filed lawsuits arguing the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP
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