Cambridge University has announced it is looking more closely into the activities of Aleksandr Kogan, the academic embroiled in the scandal over the use of Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. The university said it had asked Facebook to provide “all relevant evidence” about Kogan in relation to his involvement with the company’s data that may later have been passed to Cambridge Analytica. Kogan has been banned from Facebook amid accusations he was involved in gathering the personal data of millions of Facebook users through an app without their knowledge. The university said Kogan had not been suspended from his Cambridge role and was “continuing with his academic research”.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/cambridge-university-asks-facebook-for-evidence-about-role-of-academic-alex-kogan... )
Коган послал коллегам объяснительное письмо. Отрицает связи с российским правительством, а также то, что от его данных была какая-либо польза.
It’s been honestly a surreal week: I’ve been asked quite seriously by reporters from the NY Times and the Guardian if I am a Russian spy. I really tried to explain that one seems just silly. If I am Russian spy, I am the world’s dumbest spy-I did, after all, change my last name to the James Bond villains when I got married. That’s really leaning in, I guess! Nonetheless, there is an infographic in the Guardian with an arrow from the Russian government pointing at me. For those that don’t know that story, we chose Spectre as a derivation from Spectrum-we wanted to choose something that was related to light since we were both scientists and religious, and light is a strong theme in both. We ran into Spectre because my dad’s surgeon was named Jason Spectre when he was sick, and we thought it was a really cool name and hit the light theme perfectly
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интересный вопрос. Нет спора, Кембридж использовал нелегальные ходы. Но насколько это помогло трампу? Насколько я знаю, пока нет исследований, подтверждающих их методологию. То же и про Ледовую. Нет пока научного основания для всего этого.
1. Разные публикации утверждают, что микротаргетинг Cambridge Analytica - туфта и на самом деле не работает. Я не до конца этим утверждениям доверяю, потому что в компанию крупно вложился Роберт Мерсер. Мерсер не особенно разносторонний человек, но в алгоритмах искусственного интеллекта разбирается хорошо - занимался ими в IBM, а позже заработал с их помощью миллиарды на рынке. Он не стал бы вкладываться, если бы не верил в эффективность. https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/83764.html
2. В случае кампании Трампа, если микротаргетинг сработал (в частности для подавления явки среди потенциальных избирателей Клинтон), то, возможно, не столько благодаря Cambridge Analytica, сколько благодаря прикомандированным сотрудникам Фейсбука, Твиттера и Гугла. https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/84027.html
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Cambridge University has announced it is looking more closely into the activities of Aleksandr Kogan, the academic embroiled in the scandal over the use of Facebook data by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.
The university said it had asked Facebook to provide “all relevant evidence” about Kogan in relation to his involvement with the company’s data that may later have been passed to Cambridge Analytica.
Kogan has been banned from Facebook amid accusations he was involved in gathering the personal data of millions of Facebook users through an app without their knowledge.
The university said Kogan had not been suspended from his Cambridge role and was “continuing with his academic research”.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/cambridge-university-asks-facebook-for-evidence-about-role-of-academic-alex-kogan... )
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It’s been honestly a surreal week: I’ve been asked quite seriously by reporters from the NY Times and the Guardian if I am a Russian spy. I really tried to explain that one seems just silly. If I am Russian spy, I am the world’s dumbest spy-I did, after all, change my last name to the James Bond villains when I got married. That’s really leaning in, I guess! Nonetheless, there is an infographic in the Guardian with an arrow from the Russian government pointing at me. For those that don’t know that story, we chose Spectre as a derivation from Spectrum-we wanted to choose something that was related to light since we were both scientists and religious, and light is a strong theme in both. We ran into Spectre because my dad’s surgeon was named Jason Spectre when he was sick, and we thought it was a really cool name and hit the light theme perfectly ( ... )
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Что касается собственно методологии:
1. Разные публикации утверждают, что микротаргетинг Cambridge Analytica - туфта и на самом деле не работает. Я не до конца этим утверждениям доверяю, потому что в компанию крупно вложился Роберт Мерсер. Мерсер не особенно разносторонний человек, но в алгоритмах искусственного интеллекта разбирается хорошо - занимался ими в IBM, а позже заработал с их помощью миллиарды на рынке. Он не стал бы вкладываться, если бы не верил в эффективность.
https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/83764.html
2. В случае кампании Трампа, если микротаргетинг сработал (в частности для подавления явки среди потенциальных избирателей Клинтон), то, возможно, не столько благодаря Cambridge Analytica, сколько благодаря прикомандированным сотрудникам Фейсбука, Твиттера и Гугла. https://puppet-djt.livejournal.com/84027.html
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