{"id":19428,"date":"2016-04-02T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T16:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19428"},"modified":"2016-04-02T11:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T16:22:58","slug":"how-to-hack-a-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=19428","title":{"rendered":"How To Hack A Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

How To Hack A Presidential Election<\/a><\/h3>\n
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There is a growing recognition of the increasing tail wagging the dog nature of the internet’s control over election outcomes.\u00a0We recently detailed\u00a0“the hidden persuaders”<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at work showing how the internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and\u00a0manipulate everything we say, think and do<\/strong>. Confirming all of this to be chillingly true is Andr\u00e9s Sep\u00falveda, who rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade.\u00a0On the question of whether the U.S. presidential campaign is being tampered with, he is unequivocal – “I’m 100 percent sure it is.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Liberty Blitzkrieg’s Mike Krieger excerpts<\/em><\/a>\u00a0a must-read\u00a0Bloomberg article<\/a>,<\/p>\n

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In July\u00a02015, Sep\u00falveda sat in the small courtyard of the Bunker, poured himself a cup of coffee from a thermos, and took out a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. He says he wants to tell his story because the public doesn\u2019t grasp the power hackers exert over modern elections or the specialized skills needed to stop them.\u00a0\u201cI worked with presidents, public figures with great power, and did many things with absolutely no regrets because I did it with full conviction and under a clear objective, to end dictatorship and socialist governments in Latin America,\u201d he says. \u201cI have always said that there are two types of politics\u2014what people see and what really makes things happen. I worked in politics that are not seen.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n

Rend\u00f3n, says Sep\u00falveda, saw that\u00a0hackers could be completely integrated into a modern political operation, running attack ads, researching the opposition, and finding ways to suppress a foe\u2019s turnout.<\/strong>\u00a0As for Sep\u00falveda, his insight was to understand that voters trusted what they thought were spontaneous expressions of real people on social media more than they did experts on television and in newspapers. He knew that accounts could be faked and social media trends fabricated, all relatively cheaply.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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How To Hack A Presidential Election There is a growing recognition of the increasing tail wagging the dog nature of the internet’s control over election outcomes.\u00a0We recently detailed\u00a0“the hidden persuaders”\u00a0at work showing how the internet has spawned subtle forms of influence that can flip elections and\u00a0manipulate everything we say, think and do. Confirming all of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,1769,7844,2148,1339,4285,517,6174,6048,13231,13230,655,669,819,821,4318],"class_list":["post-19428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-apple","tag-corruption","tag-donald-trump","tag-hacking","tag-internet","tag-liberty-blitzkrieg","tag-mexico","tag-michael-krieger","tag-none","tag-persuasion","tag-private-jet","tag-propaganda","tag-reality","tag-twitter","tag-ukraine","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19430,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19428\/revisions\/19430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}