Malice Domestic: The Cambridge Analytica Dystopia

Authors

Hal Berghel, University of Nevada, Las VegasFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-24-2018

Publication Title

Computer

Volume

51

Issue

5

First page number:

84

Last page number:

89

Abstract

Partisan consultancies like Cambridge Analytica that use data analytics to sway the electorate rely on social network users' participation in their own psychological manipulation.

Keywords

Cambridge Analytica; Electoral manipulation; Privacy; Out of Band; History of computing; Facebook; Social media

Disciplines

Computer Sciences | Information Security

Language

English

Repository Citation

Berghel, H. (2018). Malice Domestic: The Cambridge Analytica Dystopia. Computer, 51(5), 84-89.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.2381135