Facebook data misuse and voter manipulation back in the frame with latest Cambridge Analytica leaks

Facebook data misuse and voter manipulation back in the frame with latest Cambridge Analytica leaks

More details are emerging about the scale and scope of disgraced data company Cambridge Analytica’s activities in elections around the world — via a cache of internal documents that’s being released by former employee and self-styled whistleblower, Brittany Kaiser. The now shut down data modelling company, which infamously used stolen Facebook data to target voters […]

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Why Customer Personas Need to Die: Moving Beyond Segmentation to Personalize at the Individual Level

Why Customer Personas Need to Die: Moving Beyond Segmentation to Personalize at the Individual Level

Anyone who’s worked on a marketing pitch deck has dealt with customer personas — those artificial audience ideals like “Maggie the Millennial” and “Craig the CTO.” Over the past decade, customer personas have grown from a relatively new innovation to an unavoidable component of most marketing strategies — to the point that it’s hard to […]

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India’s ruling party accused of running deceptive Twitter campaign to gain support for a controversial law

India’s ruling party accused of running deceptive Twitter campaign to gain support for a controversial law

Bharatiya Janata Party, the ruling party in India, has been accused of running a highly deceptive Twitter campaign to trick citizens into supporting a controversial law. First, some background: The Indian government passed the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) last month that eases the path of non-Muslim minorities from the neighboring Muslim-majority nations of Afghanistan, Bangladesh […]

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Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M

Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M

After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat — arguably changing the filters game for all social video and photo apps — Snap has made another acquisition with roots in the country, co-founded by one of Looksery’s founders, to give a big boost to its video capabilities. The company […]

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