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- *Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media
With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda network. Carole Cadwalladr (additional reporting by Paul-Olivier Dehaye), The Guardian, 26 February 2017.
- *Whistleblower Explains How Cambridge Analytica Helped Fuel U.S. 'Insurgency' (36 min)
Fresh Air, with Terry Gross. October 8, 2019
When Christopher Wylie first began working for the British behavioral research company SCL Group, the company used data drawn from a number of sources as a means of potentially altering outcomes for their, sometimes military, clients.
But over time, Wylie's mission — and that of the company — expanded. Conservative strategist Steve Bannon, who later worked in President Trump's White House, became involved with the SCL subsidiary Cambridge Analytica. Wylie, who served as Cambridge Analytica's research director for a year and a half, watched as his group began to use of data from Facebook and other online sources to target users for disinformation campaigns. Transcript available.
- 608: The Revolution Starts At Noon
This American Life (WBEZ), Jan 20, 2017 Some people are super-stoked for the political changes that are coming. We hear from them. And others. Prologue: Host Ira Glass talks to a man driving to Washington, D.C.—with his brother, father and a whole lot of neckties—for his first job on Capitol Hill. (5 minutes) Act One - Meme Come True. Producer Zoe Chace attends the DeploraBall, a party for trolls and others who say they memed Trump into the presidency. (12 minutes). Sam Black Act Two - Dreamers Get Real. Kenia and her brother Henrri make a trip back to El Salvador. They’ve lived, legally, in the U.S. for the last 12 years but are worried things might change under President Trump. (12 minutes) Act Three - Law and Border. Border Patrol agents were stoked when immigration became a centerpiece of Trump’s campaign. Producer Stephanie Foo went to find out how they hope their jobs will change. (15 minutes) Stephanie Foo Act Four - You Are Still Fired (Podcast Only). Reporter Sam Black visited factory workers in Indiana to see how they are feeling. Trump saved some of their colleagues’ jobs. But not theirs. (7 minutes) George Saunders Act Five - Debate Is Not Allowed During a Vote. Democrats don’t run the White House. Or the House. Or the Senate. Here’s what life might be like for them in the coming years. (2 minutes) Sam Black Act Six - A Change In The Office Climate. Two civil servants who do not like our new President weigh their options. Quit? Stay? Stay and fight? (11 minutes)
- Fear of Diversity Made People More Likely to Vote Trump
The 2016 election was really a battle about having an open society. Sean McElwee and Jason McDaniel, The Nation, March 14, 2017 In short, our analysis indicates that Donald Trump successfully leveraged existing resentment towards African Americans in combination with emerging fears of increased racial diversity in America to reshape the presidential electorate, strongly attracting nativists towards Trump and pushing some more affluent and highly educated people with more cosmopolitan views to support Hillary Clinton. Racial identity and attitudes have further displaced class as the central battleground of American politics.
- The Journalist Who Revealed The Rage Behind American Politics (19 min)
WUNC The State of Things, 10/5/2017 - Frank Stasio has a conversation with journalist Jared Yates Sexton about his experience inside the fray of the 2016 election which he writes about in his book 'The People Are Going to Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage'.