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How the System Got Trumped: Cambridge Analytica's Electoral Psyops Campaign
Proyect, Louis
http://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/05/how-the-system-got-trumped-cambridge-analyticas-electoral-psyops-campaign/Date Written: 2018-01-05 Publisher: CounterPunch Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX21903 Available from Cinema Libre Studios, "Trumping Democracy" provides the key to understanding how we have ended up with the most unpopular president in history. Abstract: - Excerpt: ...this gripping documentary makes the case that it was instead the result of a combination of Robert Mercer's funding and the computer-based Psyops his Cambridge Analytica firm exploited. This one-two punch produced a president that Gary Cohn described, according to Michael Wolff's new bombshell book, Fire and Fury, as a "An idiot surrounded by clowns." Including the director Thomas Huchon, "Trumping Democracy" was the product of a creative team that despite (or, perhaps because of) its French provenance has a sharper focus on our national calamity than MSNBC, CNN and all the other usual suspects. Huchon's last documentary "Conspi Hunter" was based on a bogus conspiracy theory about the CIA inventing the AID virus in order to subvert Cuba. He released the film online in order to show how quickly and easily conspiracy theories can go viral on the Internet. Given the role of Breitbart News and Infowars in the Trump campaign, it was logical that Huchon would make his latest film a kind of follow-up to "Conspi Hunter". Subject Headings
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