Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Politics

POLITICAL INSIGHT • MARCH 2020 I n the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump’s team hired a little-known AngloAmerican company called Cambridge Analytica (CA) to work on the Republican candidate’s social media campaign. CA used data analysis techniques to target tens of millions of voters across the US with proTrump messages. The company’s activities were made possible by the harvesting of data from over 50 million Facebook users, without their consent or knowledge. Assisted by a specifically designed algorithm, the profiles of Facebook users Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Politics

• Publication year

  2020

• Venue

  Political Insight

• Publication date

  2020-02-24

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1177/2041905820911746
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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