cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/10857620

The Great British Brexit Robbery: How our Democracy was hijacked, by Carole Cadwalladr

If you are interested in this text, you might save not only the link, but the PDF as well - apparently there are ongoing efforts to de-publish it completely. (What again was the word we were using for this in USSR times?)

And if you are interested on many more details how “social media” and most smartphone software employs a neverending stream of “brain hacks” to capture our attention by addictive design, amplifying the campaigns of Cambridge Analytica and people behind it like Bannon or Mercer, this is a book you should look into:

“Free Your Mind from Smartphone and Social Media Stress”, by Imran Rashid and Søten Kenner, Johm Wiley & Sons, ISBN (print) 978-3-527-51002-3, (epub) 978-3-527-82886-9.

  • title sounds like a self-help book but I think it is immensely political.
  • grey_maniac@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    So if one were to make, say, a list of threats to tje future of democracy, it should include Robert Mercer, Steve Bannon, and Chris Wylie? You know, in case any pro-democracy fanatics are wondering.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      Yes but I couldn’t help but think of the upcoming Canadian elections because Brexit passed, trump got back in, and all with the aid of explicit military psychological operations from SCL/Cambridge Analytica which (apparently, per the article) is essentially based in BC.