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Weaponized Information: Is the next arms race here?

Weaponized Information: Is the next arms race here?

A blog by Martin Erasmuson

These companies have profiles for hundreds of millions of people around the world, based solely of Facebook likes and posts.  To ‘weaponise’ information, these companies use machine-learning, artificial-intelligence and automation to read how a particular news story is trending on Facebook or Twitter and then autogenerate thousands of new accounts that auto-post thousands of posts, comments and ‘likes’ that takes the story in the direction you want it to go.