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yardwork

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19. Knowing voters' health issues allows targeted advertising.
Sat Sep 16, 2017, 02:08 PM
Sep 2017

For instance, people with cancer diagnoses could receive targeted fake news Facebook propaganda pieces about how much Trump cares about cancer victims. (There were videos about this all over the internet leading up to the election.) Also, these voters would be targets of fake news claiming that Hillary didn't care about cancer victims.

History of mental illness in a voter's medical records? They would be the targets of propaganda that played on their fears.

Medical records also provide lots of demographic data - ages, addresses, family histories.

All of this information was fed into algorithms that spit out propaganda targeted to the interests and vulnerabilities of specific voters. This is very sophisticated, personalized propaganda.

This is why we are unable to reason with family, friends, coworkers, and neighbors who are convinced of alternate realities. They are literally brainwashed.

If this isn't stopped, somebody - probably Putin - will literally take over the world. This is brainwashing on a global scale.

Traitors, all of them. Pardoned, all of them, and the more treasonous they are shown to be Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #1
What do you think it means? MelissaB Sep 2017 #4
I think it means he will pardon everyone, not one of them will spend a day in jail Eliot Rosewater Sep 2017 #5
One last little snip MelissaB Sep 2017 #2
Whoa. This is enormous. LisaM Sep 2017 #3
My latest column on this subject WhiteTara Sep 2017 #6
This info has been dormant for a few months. Wellstone ruled Sep 2017 #8
Have you more on the patient records angle? unc70 Sep 2017 #14
I have to go and punch the hell out of my new clown punching bag BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #7
'I think the Russians had help, - Ive always wondered if Cambridge Analytica was part of that.' CousinIT Sep 2017 #9
That server IN Trump Tower Control-Z Sep 2017 #10
Recommended. H2O Man Sep 2017 #11
Very important connection with Spectrum Health (DeVos and Prince) unc70 Sep 2017 #12
It means the data from the stolen voter rolls, Volaris Sep 2017 #17
Knowing voters' health issues allows targeted advertising. yardwork Sep 2017 #19
Well, SOMEBODY had to. This was way too focused and targeted to be shot-in-the-dark stuff. calimary Sep 2017 #13
investigators are going to find out they were coordinating with 25 years of talk radio certainot Sep 2017 #15
I've always taken it for granted canetoad Sep 2017 #16
Of course this is what happened. yardwork Sep 2017 #18
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