Religious data platform [Cambridge Analytica] 'targets vulnerable people'

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32 points·bleepblorp··7 comments

I certainly don't agree with these people but isn't this what they've always done?

The church views the poor and those with health issues as people they can "help". This is how it has always been and they are entirely open about it. So I'd say this is kind of a non story.

Read the article.

Facebook was used as a platform for a well-funded campaign to identify ill and vulnerable people to bring them to extremist churches specifically for the purposes of political radicalization.

This is a step change in the level of 'wrong' from churches merely using Facebook-guided advertising to exploit vulnerable people for religious purposes.

So, basically what the church has done for all of recorded history?

I'm going to guess that when the church was recruiting executioners for the inquisition they weren't selecting for the most well adjusted people then either. And I guess you could call that radical politics.

Read the article.

The churches don't have radical views though.

Also please see the HN guidelines regarding insinuating someone hasn't read the article.

Please see the HN guidelines against "shallow dismissals" and the expectation that responses are to be made to "the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize."

Article seems to be bringing up the debunked Cambridge Analytica Brexit conspiracy theory as truth: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54457407

And conservative churches are not 'far right'. They are right wing. They are advocating against abortion, not for genocide.

Essentially this article is: 'churches recruit vulnerable people' dressed up in mass hysteria.

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