Cambridge Analytica in Mexico
30 March 2018
I’m not surprised by the casual racism of the CA people.
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Interesting. I don’t think Cambridge Analytica is any worse than anyone else, despite their being the misledia’s whipping boy these days.
By the way, I watched the AMLO interview. He seems a bit on the slippery side. Every tough question resulted in an answer which was “let the people decide.” And none of the interviewers (unless I missed something) called him out by saying that Mexico was a representative democracy, not a direct one. And AMLO was very vague about how he was going to determine what people wanted.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens in the next 3 months. Thanks for the election coverage.
Saludos,
Kim G
Redding, CA
Where we are appalled at how much data both Google and Facebook retain on their users. Fortunately, we don’t use FB and we try to keep Google guessing as much as possible.
Had anybody here heard of pig.gi prior to watching this? I hadn’t. I’ve asked several people about it, and they never heard of it, either.
I’ve got 200 pesos that says that the reason Meade got the PRI nomination is, they used pig.gi to “test market” the various people they had available, and Meade got the best results.