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This is a normal post Cambridge Analytica is pure snake oil.
Total and utter bollocks.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 26 Feb 2017, 20:08, , Reply)
This is a normal post Utter Bollocks
How do you know Cambridge Analytica is utter bollocks?
 (rolandino, Sun 26 Feb 2017, 20:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post This piece is pretty good.
www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-01/trump-s-secret-sauce-is-just-more-ketchup
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 26 Feb 2017, 21:57, , Reply)
This is a normal post This one is better
www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/the-truth-about-the-trump-data-team-that-people-are-freaking

But in any event, whenever a company tells you they have a special propriety secret way of doing something you thought impossible:
Don't look at the man hiding behind the curtain -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steorn
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 26 Feb 2017, 22:02, , Reply)
This is a normal post Actually, that article doesn't dispute the what, merely the how
They're still saying that the data was collected, analysed and used in very shady ways (e.g. voter suppression through "dark posts").

All that article says is that other organisations could have supplied the data, which is akin to complaining about the label on the bottle and not the contents.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Sun 26 Feb 2017, 22:42, , Reply)
This is a normal post But 'data' isn't magic.
It. Is. All. Bollocks.
He didn't win because the vote was suppressed. He didn't win because he knew more than Hilary (who was using exactly the same big data snake oil salesmen). He didn't win because a few shady billionaires were backing him (Hilary had plenty too).
His campaign had the square root of fuck all to do with analysing trends.
This is Alex Jones stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Sun 26 Feb 2017, 22:47, , Reply)
This is a normal post Asserting something repeatedly doesn't make it fact

(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Mon 27 Feb 2017, 10:43, , Reply)
This is a normal post Emma Stone is my girlfriend.
Emma Stone is my girlfriend.
 (I helped save b3ta! George Blank my 2nd last sig was funny, Mon 27 Feb 2017, 11:50, , Reply)