I listen to a LOT of podcasts, mostly about politics, and most of them have done an entire show or a large part of a show about the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Most have misunderstood exactly what CA have supposedly done with "psychographics" in the 2016 election. They were hired by the Ted Cruz campaign to do this microtargeting that has everyone up in an uproar, but it didn't work and Ted Cruz lost in the primary to Trump. They were then hired by Trump but his campaign lacked the infrastructure for such work so they just did standard social media stuff for him. They are really horrible people I'm sure, but they didn't install Trump into the Oval Office. And the frightening-sounding things they claim they can do did not work. Only the Weeds from Vox.com explained this fully. I thanked the team (Ezra Klein, Matthew Yglesias, and Sarah Kliff) for really explaining everything thoroughly. Mr Yglesias retweeted me, and my phone kinda melted for a bit.
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