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by zby 3427 days ago
Cory Doctorow agrees: https://boingboing.net/2017/02/01/trumps-big-data-secret-sau...

And a more thorough debunking: http://civichall.org/civicist/will-the-real-psychometric-tar...

With this quote: "I have described them as the Theranos of political data: I think they have a tremendous marketing department, coupled with a team of research scientists who provide on virtually none of those marketing promises." :)

But on a second thought. Planting this story is a masterpiece of promotion - and isn't this kind of similar to promoting a politician?

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It looks like it's more that Cory Doctorow agrees with Cathy O'Neil https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-01/trump-s-s...