What's the Pushback?

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S, it's actually a pretty small ass. It should be something they'de agreed to almost immediately. D, what do you think they would say for why they wouldn't do that? What's the defense? I think they would be worried about the fact that it would demonstrate that they don't have a way to solve it. You know, it's a slippery slope for them to admit that if the reason why they're turning it off is because an expedential number of advertisers targeting an expedient number of things run by machines is unsafe fundamentally. They're admitting that the entire system is dangerous fundamentally.

Brittany Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica insider, witnessed a two day presentation at the company that shocked her and her co-workers. It laid out a new method of campaigning, in which candidates greet voters with a thousand faces and speak in a thousand tongues, automatically generating messages that are increasingly aiming toward an audience of one. She explains how these methods of persuasion have shaped elections worldwide, enabling candidates to sway voters in strange and startling ways.