Cambridge analytical episode

[Compersion]

if one remembers that bill clinton used focus groups and had a team that would call people and ask and random and datamined questions and they would analyse the same. the human interface was predominately there and the objective was to win. it got all ridiculous when it was being used for the monica lewisinky issue. now again what is the use and purpose. is it damage control for one user and winning for another stakeholder and disruption - transition for the heavens ...

is CA about winning. is CA about conducting research. is CA about campaign management.

fascinating ...

also

Indira P Gandhi had used services of a foreigner i believe a american lawyer from california i forget his name - after 1970s (in a way to manage her campaign) who turned up and according to him offered his services. i am not talking about Justice William Broome who was also a foreigner (albeit became Indian eventually) and one can say with different objectives. Everyone already knows the big cat in the bag that is Sonia Gandhi. You also have the case of NRIs and OCIs and PIOs ... what are the objectives and one can say the rules and customs and traditions to use. Also this whole composition is making it dangerous for congress since they are making it clear the reliance of foreign influence - and again away from the stakeholders within India - perhaps a internal issue is developing within the congress of foreign vs overseas vs indian.

"We are capable of doing these things on our own and do not need expensive foreign experts to teach us to execute. I personally know several big data analytics experts of International repute in India who can do what Cambridge analytics offers at much lower cost."

Poor guy probably no one understands (in fact probably he also does not) that he set it on fire.

I am really would love that this topic gets expanded and made into a wider discussion which is absolutely fascinating.

This is not at all only about Nate Silver type of work (last time i checked he only gave analysis).

 

[hit&run]

CA not only gives them data but strategy and creates conducive circumstances around for strategy to work with short term and long term goals.

If you guys are not watching Bar-Bala has started the campaign for impeachment of CJI.

The objectives are 1. To delay Ram Janam Bhoomi case. 2. Pressurize Judiciary to go soft on NH case.

The verdicts before Elections can be deleterious for Congress-I and CA must have told them so.

Papu suddenly became wise is not a miracle. Bol woh raha hai par Shabdh CA ke hain.

 

[Suryavanshi]

Now can we say that CA won't get it's hand in politics anytime soon?

 

[sthf]

Pidis on this forum are busy sniffing their own butts.

 

[hit&run]

Pidis on this forum are busy sniffing their own butts.

Pidi are lurking around NDTV and Jihadi portals to find anti Modi articles.

Bar-Bala was upto systematic design to weaken this country. Now she is out more naked with her conspiracies to divide this nation.

Sometimes I think when innocent Indian bow down to their stone idols, the divine help descends down to help us one or the other way.

Award Wapsi

JNU

Caste Politics

Impeach CJI

North and South divide

Nothing is spontaneous.

I pity on those who can not see these facts but take utopian values, Ideas, cliche's as serious remedies to solve problems.

 

[AnantS]

Lo jee official congress party newspaper Hindustan Times has started the process of whitewashing Cambridge Analytica actions as something that were meant to study heathen uncivilized Indians:

Congress IT Team rejoice... say Hallelujah

Not only elections, Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm worked on honour killings in India

 

[Suryavanshi]

Lo jee official congress party newspaper Hindustan Times has started the process of whitewashing Cambridge Analytica actions as something that were meant to study heathen uncivilized Indians:

Congress IT Team rejoice... say Hallelujah

Not only elections, Cambridge Analytica’s parent firm worked on honour killings in India

Man what would it take for these Newspaper to take a rightful Stand in journalism or at least not be politically biased

 

[LordOfTheUnderworlds]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/nation...es-in-india/article23372562.ece?homepage=true

Mr. Dehaye said that his understanding was that, while Muresan, purportedly worked for the Congress, he had been paid by a billionaire to undermine it. “He was pretending to work for one party but was actually paid underhand by someone else,” Mr. Dehaye told the committee on Tuesday

I don't understand what the fuss is all about. In last election, social media was clearly dominated by BJP.

Aam admi is anyway as usual is sheeple in games of few big people.

 

[AnantS]

Man what would it take for these Newspaper to take a rightful Stand in journalism or at least not be politically biased

Dissolution of Congress? Dude they are in way owned by Congress! Its funny people paying money to read Congress party daily briefings and musings

 

[dhananjay1]

Man what would it take for these Newspaper to take a rightful Stand in journalism or at least not be politically biased

Journalism wasn't and isn't about finding truth. It's just a fake ideal they like to promote. Any news organization that wants to build a network has to get patronage of the government of the time. It's true everywhere whether In India or the west. They speak against government only if the wrong faction is in power. There is no such thing as politically unbiased journalism.

 

[prohumanity]

So they think Indian voters are fools...The crooks and fraudsters want to impeach the Chief Justice of India ...so they can get away with their dirty, fraudulent deeds.

Mamta's Goons taking bribes, Sharad Pawar's dishonest mafia robbing Indians, Lalu and his disgustingly crooked thief family ....they are in trouble if honest, patriotic leaders come back to power....Their GAME will be over for good.
Before going down, these frausters will try all dirty tricks to mislead Indian voters as now, sh*it is going to hit the fan about how they were systematically stealing a huge amount of Indian people's money.

 

[hit&run]

Did Disgraced Data Firm Try To Infiltrate Congress?

Requesting poster to suggest, what is wrong with this title.

The title is being run by non other than NDTV's soft spoken spin snake, the detective Journalist (Pun Intended) Sreenivasan Jain.

 

[dhananjay1]

Did Disgraced Data Firm Try To Infiltrate Congress?

Requesting poster to suggest, what is wrong with this title.

The title is being run by non other than NDTV's soft spoken spin snake, the detective Journalist (Pun Intended) Sreenivasan Jain.

Poor Congress is victim here, stop bullying the victim.

 

[sorcerer]

Facebook tries controlling election fake news in India

Facebook has tied up with an Indian fact-checking company in its first attempt to prevent fake news from influencing an election.

The collaboration with Boom, a certified fact-checking agency based in Mumbai, will continue past the May 12 polling day for state elections in Karnataka, until the results are announced on May 15.

Facebook, which has been under fire around the world for allowing the spread of fake news, already has fact-checking programmes in the US, the Philippines, France, Indonesia and Italy, but the Karnataka project is the first one launched expressly to deal with an election, said Govindraj Ethiraj, the founder of Boom.

Mr Ethiraj founded Boom in 2014 as a site focused on promoting freedom of expression in India. Two years later, he gave it new bearings. After Donald Trump won the presidency in the US in 2016 "it was quite clear to me that fake news was going to matter here in India as well”, he said.

Boom is one of only two organisations in India — and around 50 in the world — that has been certified by the International Fact Checking Network, an initiative driven by the Poynter Institute, a non-profit media school in St Petersburg, Florida.

With a team of six fact-checkers, Boom has verified the claims of politicians, examined the veracity of rumours and scrutinised circulated videos or images that might be doctored. The results are posted on its website.

Mr Ethiraj said Boom’s discussions with Facebook began well before the current controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica, the British firm accused of harvesting user data from the social media platform. “They had been working on similar projects earlier, elsewhere in the world,” he said. “But maybe this Cambridge Analytica business gave them some steam.”

Facebook announced its fact-checking partnership with Boom in a company blog post on Monday, and outlined how it would work.


Once Facebook users flag “news” links as fake or inappropriate, the articles enter Boom’s checking pipeline. The agency also roots out disputed or suspect pieces from other sources: Twitter, WhatsApp and dubious news sites.

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If an article is found to be false, Facebook will push it lower down:bs: the news feed. “We have learned that once a story is rated as false, we have been able to reduce its distribution by 80 per cent,” the company said.

If the fact-checkers write articles debunking a false news story, Facebook will show it in the related articles immediately below the story in the news feed. The company said it would also notify users and and page administrators "if they try to share a story or have shared one in the past that’s been determined to be false”.

But not all election-related news can be fact-checked, Mr Ethiraj said.

When a truck hit a car in the convoy of Ananth Kumar Hegde, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) politician campaigning in Karnataka, he claimed it was an attempt to murder him.

“That kind of thing isn’t possible for us to check. It’s more a law and order situation,” Mr Ethiraj said.

He recounted a recent example of how Boom’s work could be effective.

Divya Spandana, the social media head of the Congress party, had posted a photo of a newspaper in which a BJP campaign ad allegedly read: “For A Corruption State.” Suggesting that the ad was a typo, she wrote: “The honesty is laughable.”


A Boom fact-checker analysed the photo and determined that it had been modified, and that the original ad read: “For A Corruption Free State.” The fact-checker also contacted Ms Spandana, who admitted that she knew the image had been Photoshopped, and that she had received it as a forward on WhatsApp. “It was meant to be sarcasm,” she claimed in her defence.





Congress' :bsivya Spandana :bs:Shares Photoshopped Pic; Says It Was Sarcasm https://t.co/kMYb6EqAfT via @boomlive_in

— BOOM FactCheck (@boomlive_in) April 18, 2018


India has roughly 200 million active Facebook users, and the controversy over fake news has already put many Karnataka voters on guard. P S Rajagopal, a 39-year-old engineer living in Bengaluru, the state capital, said he was far warier of articles he saw on Facebook than elsewhere. “Just because I see people only share articles that seem to confirm what their politics is or has become,” he said.

Mr Rajagopal said he tried to be diligent in his consumption of news: clicking through to the article to read the whole thing, rather than relying upon an extract; taking into account who shared the story; and being extra cautious with websites outside the mainstream media.

Mr Ethiraj said such vigilance was necessary.

“So far the level of fake news in Karnataka has been par for the course. But closer to polls, the velocity of misinformation usually increases. For this election, the volume of fake news will go up soon.”
https://www.thenational.ae/world/as...trolling-election-fake-news-in-india-1.723237