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Doctorow: Cambridge Analytica mobilized existing racists rather than converting normal people
“Cambridge Analytica's failure to exploit any of the things that you could actually get super rich from if you could control people's minds tells you that probably what they were doing was finding racists And convincing them that Trump was someone to vote for. …”
Cory Doctorow Nov 27, 2019 ▶ 38:23 Cory Doctorow and Joe Betts-Lacroix on Adversarial Interoperability · Y Combinator
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