Introduction
Summary of the book Mindfck by Christopher Wylie. Before we start, let’s delve into a short overview of the book. Imagine you are standing in a huge, noisy marketplace, where everyone is shouting their opinions at the top of their lungs. Now, imagine that instead of real voices, these shouts are invisible whispers inside your own head. This story is about how a team of clever data experts managed to do something very strange and unsettling: they found a way to get inside people’s minds without them ever noticing. They used secretive techniques, hidden computer programs, and personal information stolen from social media to influence the way millions of people thought, voted, and behaved. By reading this, you will journey into the secret world of a company called Cambridge Analytica, guided by a whistleblower named Christopher Wylie, who helped to pull back the curtain. As you turn these pages, you will learn how easily people’s trust can be tricked and why it matters for the future of our democracy.
Chapter 1: Peeking Behind the Curtains: How New Digital Tools Transformed Political Campaign Messages Forever.
Before the internet changed everyone’s lives, political campaigns often felt like old-fashioned street fairs. Volunteers knocked on doors, handed out pamphlets, made endless phone calls, and hoped their hard work would convince a few undecided voters. They had no detailed way to figure out who exactly cared about what issue. Everything felt clumsy, like throwing darts in the dark and praying to hit the target. This outdated method meant that voters received messages that were not really tailored to their concerns. But as technology leaped forward, data scientists and political strategists discovered powerful new tools. Suddenly, instead of guessing how people thought, they could study computer data to learn exactly who might like a certain candidate. It was as if someone had handed them a magical map that showed who voters were, what they wanted, and how to speak their language.
The turning point came when tech-savvy campaigns, like Barack Obama’s team in 2008 and 2012, used detailed voter databases to focus their efforts. They did not have to waste time putting the same message in everyone’s mailbox. Instead, they matched messages to people’s interests—like a perfectly fitting suit instead of a one-size-fits-all outfit. They examined information like which magazines people read, what causes they supported, even what stores they shopped at. By doing this, they could guess a person’s political leaning and the issues they cared about most. If someone loved art and travel, they might craft a gentle, hopeful message of change for that person. If another person valued safety and tradition, they created a message that promised stability. Campaigns became skilled at reading voters’ habits like chapters in a secret book.
However, once this door was opened, it became tempting for political consultants to push the limits. If you could win a few votes by customizing messages, why not push further? Why not try to shape not just what people hear, but what they believe deep inside? It may sound extreme, but as data scientists became more confident, they realized that with enough personal details—age, favorite hobbies, patterns of behavior—they could influence voters so precisely that it felt almost like mind control. Some observers worried that political campaigning was slipping away from open debates into hidden persuasion methods. Instead of face-to-face conversations, campaigns focused on algorithms and secret data sets. Democracy, once powered by open discussion, risked becoming a silent battlefield of digital persuasion.
It is important to understand how these changes started slowly and then sped up. At first, using data for political outreach seemed like a smarter way to run a campaign—no more wasting money on ads that nobody cared about, no more printing endless leaflets. But as time passed, everyone wanted to be more clever, more targeted, and more effective. This transformed politics into something like a high-tech sport, where the smartest data team often won. This chapter sets the stage for a more unsettling story. We are beginning to learn that personal data is not just numbers on a screen—it can be a powerful tool to influence human minds. What began as a more efficient campaign method slowly turned into a secret weapon that would soon spread far beyond America’s borders.
Chapter 2: Unmasking Personality: How Psychometric Data Turned Voters into Digital Profiles of Inner Traits.
Traditionally, campaigns grouped voters by simple labels like age, income, or race. But this approach lacked depth. Think about it: not all teenagers agree, not all working-class people share the same dreams. It is too crude to imagine that everyone in one group has one single opinion. That is where psychometric data—the science of measuring personality traits—stepped in. Instead of just focusing on where you lived or how old you were, clever data experts began analyzing deeper personal qualities. They studied patterns to guess how open-minded a person might be, how extroverted they were, or how anxious and worried they felt about life’s uncertainties. Understanding these Big Five personality traits—Openness, Conscientiousness, Extroversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism—allowed campaign teams to speak to voters’ deepest feelings, rather than just what they looked like on paper.
Imagine if you could peer into someone’s mind just by checking what they liked on social media, which videos they shared, or which comments they left under posts. With advanced models, data experts realized they could predict a person’s personality profile quite accurately without the person knowing. For instance, if someone constantly posted about traveling, art, and discovery, they might score high on Openness. If another person often liked content about tradition, order, and discipline, they might be Conscientious. By grouping people using such personality clues, campaigns no longer had to guess what would move voters. Instead, they knew which words, images, and stories would spark interest, fear, hope, or anger in specific people. It was like suddenly having the key to hundreds of locked doors, each door representing a human mind.
In the early days, not everyone saw the importance of this new approach. For example, a political party called the Liberal Democrats in the UK struggled to see how understanding personalities could improve their campaigns. Even when shown how personality-based targeting could revolutionize messaging, they hesitated. They stuck to their old methods of printing leaflets and using outdated voter databases. But other political operators were more open to this new world. They wanted to harness these insights to create messages that felt personally meaningful to each voter. Soon, these methods spread. If one campaign had the advantage of psychology-based messaging, how could others afford to ignore it? This caused a new race: who could gather the most personal data, learn the most about voters’ inner worlds, and use that knowledge first?
The power of psychometric data also lies in its subtlety. It is not just about labeling you open or conscientious. It is about layering multiple traits together to form a complex picture of who you are. With this knowledge, persuaders can choose exactly what to say, how to say it, and when. And because our online activities leave digital footprints everywhere, personality clues are easy to gather in secret. This allowed political campaigners to avoid the traditional limitations of public debates and slogans. Instead, they could quietly slip messages into a person’s social media feed at exactly the right moment. As we move ahead in this story, keep in mind that the ability to see inside minds through data was the first step toward manipulating entire groups of people—often without them ever realizing it.
Chapter 3: Enter the Puppet Masters: Inside the Secretive World of SCL’s Psychological Warfare and Influence Operations.
The SCL Group was not just another political consulting firm. Imagine walking into an office that looked grand and elegant, yet felt strangely tense, as though it hid many secrets behind velvet curtains and polished floors. Its leaders had backgrounds in politics, foreign affairs, and even military intelligence. They dealt not just with regular campaigns, but with something darker and more complex: psychological warfare. Their goal was not merely to win elections, but to shape opinions and sow confusion in ways that traditional campaigning could never achieve. If you wanted to understand how to scare or convince people on a mass scale, SCL was your team. They were like chess players who saw voters not as citizens, but as pieces on a board, ready to be moved.
When Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who later exposed Cambridge Analytica, first encountered SCL, he discovered a company that treated mind games as normal business. Its members boasted about winning hearts and minds abroad, even if it meant using fear, misleading stories, and provocation. The company’s methods were not invented overnight. They drew from old tactics—like Ivan the Terrible’s gruesome displays of punishment to scare subjects—just updated for the digital age. Now, instead of fire and steel, they used data and algorithms to reshape how communities thought and behaved. Suddenly, wars could be fought without armies marching on battlefields. Instead, they happened inside people’s heads, triggered by messages delivered through their smartphones and laptops.
SCL learned that in parts of the world where violence, narcotics, or terrorism threatened stability, data-driven persuasion could be a powerful weapon. They identified specific personality types—those who were anxious, paranoid, or easily influenced—and fed them carefully crafted rumors. By fueling mistrust among the right people, they could tear apart criminal networks from the inside. In some cases, they used these tactics for arguably good causes, such as discouraging individuals from joining terrorist groups. But as we will see, the lines between good and bad purposes were blurry. The same tools that could disrupt drug lords could also destabilize elections or manipulate innocent citizens.
The key lesson: controlling what people believe is often easier than controlling their actions by force. After all, actions follow beliefs. SCL’s unusual methods caught the eye of powerful political figures, wealthy investors, and secretive agencies. Their headquarters became a meeting place for people who wanted to shape entire societies’ opinions. Here, data was currency, and the more data you had, the more you could influence. For Christopher Wylie, stepping into SCL’s world was like entering a hidden laboratory of human influence, where no rulebook guided what was right or wrong. The stage was set for an even more ambitious project—one that would push these methods into mainstream Western politics and eventually rock the world’s largest democracies.
Chapter 4: Hidden Strings Across Continents: How SCL’s Psychological Tactics Manipulated Minds Worldwide.
SCL’s methods were not limited to a single country or crisis. They experimented with psychological warfare across continents, testing how easily they could alter people’s thoughts. In one South American case, they targeted a dangerous narcotics network. By carefully selecting people who were already nervous, easily angered, or insecure, they planted seeds of doubt and suspicion. They whispered false rumors and carefully designed messages, making key players believe their partners would betray them. Soon, paranoia spread, relationships crumbled, and the criminal structure began to collapse from within. SCL did not need guns or bombs. Words, placed in the right minds at the right time, were their most powerful weapon.
In other regions, such as parts of the Middle East, SCL tried to encourage at-risk young men not to join violent extremist groups. By understanding what fears and frustrations pushed these young men toward violence, SCL offered alternative narratives to draw them away from extremism. On the surface, this might seem like a noble cause—steering people from terror. But remember, these were the same people who believed they could shape elections, sow distrust, and pick apart communities. Good or bad depended entirely on who paid for their services and what the target was.
As SCL’s reputation grew, so did their ambitions. If they could manipulate small groups for limited goals, why not apply these strategies to entire populations? Soon, their techniques found their way into political battles around the world. In some cases, they advised governments on controlling opinions within their borders. In others, they helped win elections by nudging voters’ thoughts in subtle yet powerful ways. This was the dawn of weaponized data—information not just used to understand people, but to push them in directions they might never choose on their own.
For ordinary citizens, all this was invisible. People scrolled through their social media feeds, read news stories, and believed they were making their own decisions. They did not realize that behind the scenes, skilled manipulators were testing messages, refining them, and planting them like seeds in fertile minds. The world had entered a new era where the battlefield was digital and private. Soldiers were data analysts, and their ammunition was personal information collected without permission. It was a quiet invasion of people’s thoughts, spreading across borders like a hidden wind. And it was about to enter the largest stage yet: the political and cultural battlefield of the United States.
Chapter 5: The Philosopher of Chaos: Steve Bannon’s Vision to Reshape America’s Cultural Landscape.
By 2013, SCL’s unconventional techniques drew interest from a figure who would soon become infamous: Steve Bannon. At first glance, Bannon looked like an ordinary older man with scruffy hair and a rough demeanor. But beneath that exterior was a mind busy with philosophical and cultural ideas. He admired thinkers who explored power, identity, and social structures. Bannon believed that America was locked in a cultural war—a battle not fought with weapons, but with ideas, fears, and hopes. He wanted to tear down what he saw as the stale order and rebuild America’s identity in a new, radical way.
Bannon did not just want to win an election; he wanted to transform the nation’s soul. To do this, he needed tools that could shift people’s opinions at a very personal level. SCL and their evolving techniques seemed perfect for this. They already knew how to push people’s emotional buttons. Now, with Bannon’s guidance, they would tailor messages to speak directly to Americans who felt confused, angry, or left behind. With data-driven insights, they could tell these individuals: You’re not alone. We see your frustration. We know who’s to blame. Such messages, carefully tested and delivered, would rally people to Bannon’s chosen causes.
Before unleashing these methods at full scale, SCL ran experiments to prove their value. In a test run in Virginia, they tried to sway voters by linking personality traits to political messages. By understanding local fears—such as concerns about certain laws—they found arguments that could make even extreme political positions seem acceptable, as long as those positions felt consistent with voters’ personal values. This small experiment worked astonishingly well. It showed Bannon that with the right data, American voters could be nudged, prodded, and molded into the shape he desired.
From that moment on, Bannon and SCL were partners in a mission that went beyond winning elections. They aimed at remaking America’s cultural identity from the inside out. Their alliance would soon give birth to a new firm that became famous: Cambridge Analytica. This new entity would gather massive amounts of personal data, slice and dice it to understand voters better than they understood themselves, and then feed them messages that could spark fear, anger, or loyalty. As we move forward, remember that behind every message were strategists who saw politics not as a public conversation, but as a secret game of influence. With Bannon’s arrival, that game was about to become bigger and more daring than ever before.
Chapter 6: Building the Beast: How Cambridge Analytica Collected Mountains of Data to Influence Minds.
To achieve Bannon’s grand cultural vision, a new company was born: Cambridge Analytica. This was more than a simple rebranding. Cambridge Analytica used the prestige of Cambridge’s name (even without an official link to the university) to appear intellectual and cutting-edge. With generous funding from billionaire Robert Mercer, they had the resources to gather unimaginable amounts of personal data. They aimed to know every voter as intimately as a best friend might—understanding secrets, fears, and desires. Armed with this knowledge, they would craft messages that felt personal, honest, and believable, even when they were carefully designed manipulations.
Cambridge Analytica turned to data brokers, census information, and especially Facebook to gather these digital treasures. Most users never questioned why a personality quiz app needed access to their friend lists, likes, and private messages. By taking a simple quiz, people unknowingly handed over personal details, along with similar data about their entire social circle. Through these clever tricks, Cambridge Analytica collected information on tens of millions of Facebook users—information that revealed their personalities, emotions, and vulnerabilities. This allowed the company’s algorithms to guess how users would think, feel, and respond to targeted messages.
Once Cambridge Analytica built this massive database, they separated people into groups. Some were attracted by calls for tradition and stability. Others felt drawn to messages promising radical change. Some were attracted to wild, conspiratorial ideas. Cambridge Analytica used these traits to feed users tailor-made political advertisements and posts that seemed to come from trusted friends or community members. By doing so, they blurred the line between genuine public opinion and artificial narratives constructed in a boardroom. The goal was not just to persuade—but to reshape what people considered normal or possible in politics.
With this mountain of data, Cambridge Analytica could guess how likely you were to vote for one candidate or another. It could predict what kind of posts would trigger your anger or fear. It could decide which color, phrase, or image would stick in your mind. The data was like a secret map, showing exactly where to place each stepping stone to guide your thoughts. For the millions of people affected, this manipulation was invisible. They did not realize that the articles they saw, the posts that enraged them, or the memes that made them laugh were chosen just for them. With each click and share, voters danced to a tune they could not hear—a tune composed by data scientists and political strategists aiming to change the course of history.
Chapter 7: Dark Allies: How Cambridge Analytica and Russian Interests Exploited Facebook’s Weaknesses.
As Cambridge Analytica honed its techniques, it discovered there were other powerful players interested in manipulating opinions—namely, Russian operatives. While it was not always clear exactly who was involved, strange visitors from Russian-linked companies would appear in Cambridge Analytica’s offices, observing their methods. Some were supposedly from the energy sector, but rumors abounded that they had ties to Russian intelligence. They asked odd questions about Ukraine, Crimea, and Russian leadership. It was as if another invisible hand wanted to guide the global chessboard of public opinion.
Cambridge Analytica’s actions also intersected with the rise of extremist online communities. Among them were incels, young men who felt rejected by women and bitter about their social positions. Incels and similar groups were perfect targets for manipulation. They were often frustrated, lonely, and easily provoked. By identifying these vulnerable individuals through their online activities, Cambridge Analytica planted them inside fake Facebook groups. These groups pretended to be supportive communities but were actually traps, designed to fuel anger, conspiracy theories, and hatred. Once these individuals were emotionally fired up, Cambridge Analytica would encourage offline meetings that hardened their extremist beliefs.
This approach allowed Cambridge Analytica to cultivate small armies of enraged citizens who felt they had discovered secret truths or enemies lurking in the shadows. In reality, these were puppet shows, with Cambridge Analytica and its allies pulling the strings. Russia’s interest added another layer: foreign actors now saw how easily they could use social platforms to divide and unsettle American society. By spreading tailored messages, false news, and inflammatory posts, they magnified existing tensions and made ordinary disagreements explode into full-blown cultural wars.
The result was a messy web of unseen influence. Facebook’s algorithms recommended groups that stoked fear and hate, and Cambridge Analytica knew exactly which strings to pull. Russia watched and learned, spreading their own influence campaigns with surgical precision. Voters, everyday citizens, and online users became pieces in a complicated game they never volunteered to join. They thought they were merely exploring the internet, joining lively discussions, and discovering new opinions. In truth, they were being herded like sheep toward predetermined beliefs, fed narratives engineered to rile them up. And as the world would soon see, these strategies could influence not just a few angry users, but entire nations deciding their futures.
Chapter 8: Twisting the Vote: How Cambridge Analytica’s Dirty Tricks Influenced the Brexit Referendum.
Across the Atlantic, the United Kingdom faced its own historic choice: should it remain in the European Union or leave it? This question, known as Brexit, divided the country into two camps: Remain and Leave. Cambridge Analytica found fertile ground here. The Leave side consisted of multiple campaigns, including Vote Leave and Leave.eu. While these groups presented themselves as separate, Cambridge Analytica and related companies knew how to dance around legal rules. If one campaign could not pay for data targeting directly, they found sneaky ways to funnel money and data. They broke spending laws and collaborated in secret, strengthening the Leave side’s ability to flood social media with aggressive, tailored messages.
One trick involved using a small group called B-Leave, run by young volunteers who had no idea they were being used. Vote Leave wanted to give extra money to data-driven ad campaigns without appearing to break spending limits. So they funneled funds through B-Leave, pretending it was an independent group. In reality, it was all orchestrated, allowing Vote Leave to sidestep legal caps on campaign spending and push countless targeted Facebook ads toward key voters. These ads played on people’s fears and frustrations, painting the EU as a burden and stoking anger about immigration.
Remain, on the other hand, tried more straightforward arguments. They warned of economic trouble and job losses if the UK left the EU. But fear of economic pain was no match for the emotional, identity-based messages that Cambridge Analytica and Vote Leave unleashed. Their tactics made people too angry to think logically. Instead of weighing facts, voters lashed out against what they saw as an elite establishment. Even if leaving the EU might harm the economy, they considered it a justified punishment for those they believed had ignored them for too long.
When the votes were counted, Leave won by a narrow margin. Many people wondered how a decision so complex could swing on such a tight vote. In hindsight, it became clear that data-fueled manipulation had played a role. Some voters were never shown neutral information. Instead, they were flooded with ads designed to appeal to their personalities, encourage tribal thinking, and shut out reasoned debate. The Brexit campaign proved that these manipulative methods, once tested on smaller scales, could sway massive political events. Britain now faced a new future, shaped at least partly by invisible hands tapping away on keyboards and directing a river of misleading content straight into voters’ minds.
Chapter 9: Pressing Emotional Buttons: Using Cognitive Biases to Make People Ignore Reason.
At the heart of these manipulative methods lies a deep understanding of how human brains work. People like to think they make decisions based on logic and facts, but we all carry emotional filters, shortcuts, and biases that influence our thinking. Cambridge Analytica and their allies knew that if they sparked the right emotions—anger, fear, pride—they could short-circuit rational thought. For example, they would present stories so outrageous that people got too mad to think straight. This is known as the affect heuristic: when we are emotional, our brains make quick judgments, often ignoring complex reasoning.
Another powerful trick is identity-motivated reasoning. If political messages can convince you that something is part of your group’s belief system, you are more likely to accept it without question. By constantly framing issues in terms of us versus them, these campaigns made people feel attacked whenever they encountered contradicting information. The result? People clung to their side’s narrative, even when facts suggested otherwise. Instead of debating ideas, people started defending their identities. With carefully chosen images, slogans, and phrases, Cambridge Analytica created emotional shields around their target voters.
Traditional campaigning might try to persuade voters with facts and plans, but this new style relied on emotional manipulation. It thrived on confusion, rumors, and half-truths. Instead of offering solid reasons to choose a candidate, it showed scary stories about the opponent. Instead of explaining complex issues calmly, it shouted about threats and betrayals. When pushed into a corner by strong emotions, people often abandon careful thinking. This tactic worked brilliantly during the Brexit campaign and the 2016 U.S. presidential election. By the time people realized they were being emotionally tricked, the votes were already cast.
This chapter reveals a uncomfortable truth: to influence large groups, you do not need to prove you are right. You only need to make people feel strongly. By understanding and triggering psychological biases, Cambridge Analytica bypassed reasoned discussion. Their success sent a chilling message to those who cared about democracy. Could honest debates survive when secretive data-driven campaigns fanned the flames of anger and fear? For now, we know these methods worked too well, leaving societies more divided and confused than ever. The next chapter will show how the world discovered these hidden tactics and how Christopher Wylie stepped forward to expose the truth.
Chapter 10: The Whistleblower’s Choice: Christopher Wylie’s Decision to Reveal Cambridge Analytica’s Dark Secrets.
Christopher Wylie started as a bright, curious data specialist, attracted to the idea that data could unlock new political insights. At first, he thought he was helping campaigns become smarter. But as he understood what Cambridge Analytica and SCL were doing—harvesting personal data, manipulating emotions, and destabilizing democracies—he felt a growing sense of responsibility. Did he really want to be part of this massive deception? Could he live with the knowledge that he had helped create tools that turned elections into secret mind games?
Eventually, Wylie stepped away from the company. Yet, leaving was not enough. The damage these companies caused did not vanish when he quit. Cambridge Analytica kept growing in power and influence, taking on new clients, experimenting with more manipulative tactics, and pushing the boundaries of what was legal or ethical. Wylie realized that if he stayed silent, he would be allowing a terrible wrongdoing to continue unchecked. He made a difficult, courageous choice: he would become a whistleblower, someone who exposes wrongdoing from the inside, no matter the personal cost.
Bringing the truth to light was not easy. Cambridge Analytica’s lawyers threatened him, and powerful figures wanted to silence him. Facebook, suddenly worried about the scandal, asked him to confirm that all the collected data had been deleted and used only for academic purposes. Wylie knew these were lies. He teamed up with journalists like The Guardian’s Carole Cadwalladr and The New York Times reporters to reveal what he knew. Slowly, pieces of the puzzle surfaced: secret emails, project documents, and recorded videos showing Cambridge Analytica’s CEOs bragging about their dirty tricks.
Thanks to Wylie’s testimony and the evidence he provided, the public finally learned the full story. Government investigations began. Facebook’s CEO was called to testify before lawmakers. Cambridge Analytica’s activities were condemned worldwide, and the company soon collapsed under the weight of scandal. Wylie’s actions did not fix the damage already done, but they opened people’s eyes. He helped us understand how fragile our minds are to secret manipulation and how easily our trust can be misused. The whistleblower’s bravery taught a valuable lesson: sunlight is the best disinfectant. Only by exposing corruption and manipulation can we hope to protect the integrity of our democratic systems.
Chapter 11: Guarding the Future: Learning Lessons and Protecting Democracy from Hidden Influence.
Now that the truth is out, what do we do with it? The Cambridge Analytica scandal showed that the digital world is a battleground for our hearts and minds. Our data—our clicks, likes, and personal details—is not just harmless information. In the wrong hands, it can be turned into a weapon used to shape opinions, divide communities, and undermine trust. We must understand this to ensure that no other company can so easily twist our beliefs again. The question is, how can we protect ourselves and our democracy when the invisible tools of manipulation grow more advanced every day?
We can start by demanding better rules and laws. Governments must create stronger data protection regulations that punish companies for misusing personal information. Social media platforms like Facebook need to take responsibility for how their algorithms recommend content. They must ensure that foreign governments, shady groups, or dishonest actors cannot easily spread disinformation. Users, too, must learn to question what they see online. Instead of believing every shocking post, we should ask: Who created this message? Why does it make me feel angry or scared? Taking a few moments to think can make it harder for manipulators to control our reactions.
We also need more transparency. When political campaigns use data to target voters, these methods should be open and understandable. Voters deserve to know why they are seeing certain ads and what data was used to select them. Independent investigators, journalists, and researchers should be allowed to audit these systems, so people cannot hide manipulative practices behind complex code. The more we know about how our minds are targeted, the better we can defend ourselves against subtle influence.
Finally, we must remember that technology is not inherently evil. Data can help us understand problems, solve challenges, and communicate across the globe. But we must keep watch over how it is used. The story of Cambridge Analytica warns us that without vigilance, others may secretly mold our thoughts for their own gain. If we protect our personal data, demand honest information, and stay alert, we can ensure that the digital age supports, rather than undermines, democracy. The next time you open your social media feed, remember that knowledge is power. If we know how these tools can be misused, we can resist manipulation and keep our freedom of thought intact. After all, democracy is not just about voting—it is about thinking for ourselves.
All about the Book
Mindf*ck by Christopher Wylie explores the manipulation of data and privacy in the digital age, revealing the alarming truths of Cambridge Analytica’s influence on democracy and personal freedom. A must-read for the informed citizen!
Christopher Wylie is a renowned data strategist and whistleblower, famously known for exposing the unethical practices of Cambridge Analytica, advocating for data privacy and ethical technology.
Data Scientists, Politicians, Journalists, Ethicists, Digital Marketers
Reading about technology, Political activism, Data analysis, Privacy advocacy, Social media strategy
Data privacy and security, Political manipulation, Ethics in technology, Impact of social media on democracy
In a world where data is the new oil, transparency is the only way to safeguard democracy.
Edward Snowden, Naomi Klein, Malcolm Gladwell
Financial Times Business Book of the Year, The Orwell Prize, The Canadian National Book Award
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