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The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big\u00a0Data\u00a0Psy-Ops<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Bryan Bedder\/Getty Images<\/small>Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, addressing the Concordia Summit in New York, September 19, 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is emerging instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies specializing in data analysis and online influence that contract with government agencies. As they say about hedge funds, if the general public has heard their names that\u2019s probably not a good sign. But there is now one data analysis company that anyone who pays attention to the US and UK press has heard of: Cambridge Analytica. Representatives have boasted that their list of past and current clients includes the British Ministry of Defense, the US Department of Defense, the US Department of State, the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and NATO. Nevertheless, they became recognized for just one influence campaign<\/a>: the one that helped Donald Trump get elected president of the United States. The kind of help the company offered<\/a> has since been the subject of much unwelcome legal and journalistic scrutiny.<\/p>\n

Carole Cadwalladr\u2019s recent expos\u00e9<\/a> of the inner workings of Cambridge Analytica shows that the company, along with its partner, SCL Group, should rightly be as a cautionary tale about the part private companies play in developing and deploying government-funded behavioral technologies. Her source, former employee Christopher Wylie, has described the development of influence techniques for psychological warfare by SCL Defense, the refinement of similar techniques by SCL Elections through its use across the developing world (for example, a \u201crumor campaign<\/a>\u201d deployed to spread fear during the 2007 election in Nigeria), and the purchase of this cyber-arsenal by Robert Mercer, the American billionaire who funded Cambridge Analytica, and who, with the help of Wylie, Trump campaign manager Steve Bannon, and the company\u2019s chief executive Alexander Nix, deployed it on the American electorate in 2016.<\/p>\n

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The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big\u00a0Data\u00a0Psy-Ops Bryan Bedder\/Getty ImagesAlexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, addressing the Concordia Summit in New York, September 19, 2016 Apparently, the age of the old-fashioned spook is in decline. What is emerging instead is an obscure world of mysterious boutique companies specializing in data analysis and online influence that contract […]<\/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":[19367,4102,135,190,1868,7844,1493,553,19440,1740,1169,19439],"class_list":["post-32754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cambridge-analytica","tag-central-intelligence-agency","tag-cia","tag-data","tag-data-mining","tag-donald-trump","tag-facebook","tag-nato","tag-new-york-review-of-books","tag-psyops","tag-social-media","tag-tamsin-shaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754","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=32754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32755,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32754\/revisions\/32755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}