The Cambridge Analytica scandal kicked off Facebook’s largest publicity crisis, compounding fears algorithms were amplifying fake news and hate speech, and that Russian hackers weaponized them to sway the election in Trump’s favor.
"SocialNews: Enhancing Online News Recommendations by Leveraging Social Network Information"
August 2011
Michael Gartrell, Richard Han, Qin (Christine) Lv and Shivakant Mishra
Technical Report CU-CS-1084-11, Dept of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
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All it turned out to be was a dictum to be created then exploited.
It was exploited.
A sucker is born every minute.
Dalenius’ desideratum sounds like a dictum to be used as an exploit of personal privacy data, by using it as the basis for defending the collection, aggregation and analyses of same for the purposes of developing weaponized propaganda as a political tool.
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Q-anon Scalability
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Even if the number of users to be evaluated is bounded, would it be practical to calculate q over, say, a million users for every API call?
"...such minimization generally scales linearly for the Facebook data that was tested..."
Let's posit that #QAnon is not a 'person' but 'an algorithm'; a 'process'.