"Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica's "American operations," which were driven by Steve Bannon's vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer's money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals--in excess of 87 million--to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America's soul lurked an explosive tension....

Cuando Brittany Kaiser, una consultora política novata especializada en derechos humanos y relaciones internacionales, se sentó por primera vez con Alexander Nix, el carismático líder de la nueva empresa de comunicación política Cambridge Analytica, creía que los datos personales, la información precisa e identificable recogida de los smartphones, redes sociales y otros hábitos online, podían ser una fuerza para el bien.Pero lo que empezó...

Is social media destroying democracy? Are Russian propaganda or "Fake news" entrepreneurs on Facebook undermining our sense of a shared reality? A conventional wisdom has emerged since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that new technologies and their manipulation by foreign actors played a decisive role in his victory and are responsible for the sense of a "post-truth" moment in which disinformation and propaganda thrives. Network Propaganda challenges...