Mindf*ck
Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America
(Sprache: Englisch)
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and...
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For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers.Mindf*ck demonstrates how digital influence operations, when they converged with the nasty business of politics, managed to hollow out democracies. The Washington Post
Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica s American operations, which were driven by Steve Bannon s vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer s money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals in excess of 87 million to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America s soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground.
Christopher Wylie might have seemed an unlikely figure to be at the center of such an operation. Canadian and liberal in his politics, he was only twenty-four when he got a job with a London firm that worked with the U.K. Ministry of Defense and was charged putatively with helping to build a team of data scientists to create new tools to identify and combat radical extremism online. In short order, those same military tools were turned to political purposes, and Cambridge Analytica was born.
Wylie s decision to become a whistleblower prompted the largest data-crime investigation in history. His story is both exposé and dire warning about a sudden problem born of very new and powerful capabilities. It has not only laid bare the profound vulnerabilities and profound carelessness in the enormous companies that drive the attention economy, it has also exposed the profound vulnerabilities of democracy itself. What happened in 2016 was
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just a trial run. Ruthless actors are coming for your data, and they want to control what you think.
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Chapter 1Genesis
With each step, my new shoes dig into my heels. I clutch a dark-blue binder, filled with documents organized by colored tabs. Awestruck by where I ve found myself, and apprehensive of where I m heading, I focus on the sounds of our footsteps. An aide reminds us to move quickly so we won t be seen. We walk past uniformed guards, into an atrium, and turn down a corridor. The aide pushes open a door and we rush down some stairs and into a hallway that looks exactly like the last one marble floors, high ceilings, wooden doors with the occasional American flag. There are seven of us, and our footsteps echo through the hall. We are close; then I m caught. A congressman spots me and waves hello. Back again already? A handful of journalists wanders out of a press conference. They clock my electric pink hair and know who I am.
Two cameramen run in front of me and start filming, walking backward as they do. A scrum forms, the questions start coming Mr. Wylie, a question from NBC! A question from CNN! Why are you here? and one of my lawyers reminds me to keep my mouth shut. The aide points me to an elevator, warning the journalists to keep their distance, and we pile in. The cameras keep snapping as the doors close.
I m jammed in the back of the elevator, surrounded by people in suits. We start to descend, dropping deep underground. Everyone stays quiet on the way down. My mind is swimming with all of the prep work I ve done with my lawyers what U.S. laws were broken and by whom, what rights I do and don t have as a non-citizen visiting America, how to calmly respond to accusations, what happens if I am arrested afterward. I have no idea what to expect. No one does.
We come to a stop and the elevator doors glide open. There s nothing down here except another door, with a large red sign that reads RESTRICTED AREA in white lettering. NO PUBLIC OR MEDIA ACCESS. We re three floors beneath the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C.
Beyond the
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door, the floors are covered in a plush maroon carpet. Uniformed guards confiscate our phones and other electronics, placing them on a numbered shelf behind the desk, one to a person, and giving us each a numbered ticket. They tell us we can have only pencils and paper beyond this point. And on the way out, they warn us, our papers could be confiscated if it s determined that we ve taken notes on anything of a sensitive nature.
Two guards push open a massive steel door. One of them gestures us through, and one by one we step into a long hallway dimly illuminated by fluorescent lights. The walls are paneled in dark wood, and the corridor is lined with long rows of American flags on stands. It smells like an old building, stale and musty, with hints of cleaning fluid. The guards lead us down the hall, turning left and continuing to yet another door. Above, a wooden seal emblazoned with a giant eagle, arrows clutched in its talons, stares down at us. We have arrived at our destination: the Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the same room where classified congressional briefings are held.
Inside, hit by the glare of fluorescent lights, my eyes need time to adjust. The space is thoroughly nondescript, with blank beige walls and a conference table surrounded by chairs. It could be any room in any of the numerous bland federal buildings scattered across Washington, but I m struck by the silence of the SCIF. It is soundproof, built with multilayer walls that make it impervious to surveillance. The architecture is said to be blast-proof. This is a secure space, a place for America s secrets.
Once we ve taken our seats, the members of Congress begin filing in. Aides place tabulated binders on the table in front o
Two guards push open a massive steel door. One of them gestures us through, and one by one we step into a long hallway dimly illuminated by fluorescent lights. The walls are paneled in dark wood, and the corridor is lined with long rows of American flags on stands. It smells like an old building, stale and musty, with hints of cleaning fluid. The guards lead us down the hall, turning left and continuing to yet another door. Above, a wooden seal emblazoned with a giant eagle, arrows clutched in its talons, stares down at us. We have arrived at our destination: the Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facility (SCIF) of the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence the same room where classified congressional briefings are held.
Inside, hit by the glare of fluorescent lights, my eyes need time to adjust. The space is thoroughly nondescript, with blank beige walls and a conference table surrounded by chairs. It could be any room in any of the numerous bland federal buildings scattered across Washington, but I m struck by the silence of the SCIF. It is soundproof, built with multilayer walls that make it impervious to surveillance. The architecture is said to be blast-proof. This is a secure space, a place for America s secrets.
Once we ve taken our seats, the members of Congress begin filing in. Aides place tabulated binders on the table in front o
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Autoren-Porträt von Christopher Wylie
Christopher Wylie has been called the millennials first great whistleblower and a pink-haired, nose-ringed oracle sent from the future. He is known for his role in setting up and then taking down Cambridge Analytica. His revelations exposing the rampant misuse of data rocked Silicon Valley and led to some of the largest multinational investigations into data crime ever. Born in British Columbia, Canada, he studied law at the London School of Economics before moving into cultural data science and fashion trend forecasting. He lives in London, England.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Christopher Wylie
- 2019, Internationale Ausgabe, 288 Seiten, Maße: 15,7 x 23,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593229142
- ISBN-13: 9780593229149
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.03.2020
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Wylie covers plenty of ground, explaining in illuminating and often scary detail how Cambridge Analytica exploited the data to create Facebook pages that would needle neurotic, conspiratorial citizens, propagating an outraged solidarity. The New York TimesMindf*ck is worth reading if you're interested in some of the bigger questions of the day: elections; data; Russia s involvement in all of this; Steve Bannon's power plays in global politics; the list of politicians who make an appearance at the Cambridge Analytica offices. . . . The book does serve as a reminder that it might be time to check in with yourself and your relationship with the internet. Wylie talks about invading America by purposefully activating the worst in people, from paranoia to racism. Especially in relation to a certain company that sees regulation of its industry as an existential threat, it s a nice time to really wonder sure, online feels good. But is it worth it? NPR
Mindf*ck demonstrates how digital influence operations, when they converged with the nasty business of politics, managed to hollow out democracies. . . . [Wylie s] personal story, woven into the book s narrative, illustrates the confusion of our current political era as well as the challenge to Wylie s fellow members of the social media generation as they seek identities real and imagined, physical and virtual. . . . He makes clear how important the virtual world is to personal identity for his generation and those that follow. The Washington Post
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