Beyond Cambridge Analytica -- The Surveillance Companies Infiltrating As Well As Manipulating Social Media

From Forbes:

If it hasn't already been made clear past times Facebook's moves to cutting off AggregateIQ together with Cambridge Analytica from the platform next the here).

As for its social network exploitation, inwards a brochure obtained past times Forbes from terminal year's Great Britain Anti-Terror Expo, Area describes its "MCR Virtual Human Intelligence" platform. Think of it every bit software that helps organize together with grapple a regime agent's simulated profiles across unlike online spaces. Its aim is "not solely to infiltrate agents inside virtual communities of interest, but to back upward psychological operations (psyops) every bit well." Those "communities" include "blogs, forums together with social networks."...MUCH MORE

See also Thursday's "These Ex-Spies Are Harvesting Facebook Photos For Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Massive Facial Recognition Database (FB)", also from Forbes.