Discussing 1A
@Discussing1A · 1:17
Discussing 1A: The corporation that invented the future
Hi, this is Deborah Pardase. We are discussing One a the NPR radio show and podcast. Jen White just interviewed Jill Lepore. She's a historian. And the title of this show is The Corporation that that invented the Future. And we'll discover that the Corporation is Simon Mattox Corporation. And in the 1950s, they began selling research to help predict human behavior. Now, if that sounds familiar, it's because we know all about Cambridge Analytica
phil spade
@Phil · 2:39
And what he had done is kind of created Facebook groups that were right leaning and kept on moving it further and further to the right to the point where it just created this level of that's going too far, and it created just apathy. And he actually did the math, and he felt that he actually affected the election based on the numbers and based on the math that he saw. And I don't know what that was. I don't know what I was watching