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FarCenter

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7. Psychological operations are fundamental to all political campaigns

Reply to Mc Mike (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 24, 2018, 11:51 AM

Mar 2018

The purpose of the campaign is to persuade the voter to vote for your candidate. All the psychological tools developed by the ad agencies, marketing organizations, and propaganda organs of governments are applied in campaigning. It's the nature of the beast.

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Cambridge Analytica's Psy-Ops Warriors [View all] FarCenter Mar 2018 OP

Kick. This is the real story, and it's being lost. Squinch Mar 2018 #1

k & r Achilleaze Mar 2018 #2

K&R! Anon-C Mar 2018 #3

I've been saying psy-ops all along. Mc Mike Mar 2018 #4

Yes to all of the above. ucrdem Mar 2018 #5

I never trusted privatized hacker sig intel. It'd be like trusting Erik Prince in a battlefield sit Mc Mike Mar 2018 #6

Psychological operations are fundamental to all political campaigns FarCenter Mar 2018 #7

Advertising is a form of psy ops, but psy warfare against our population is no ad for Tide. Mc Mike Mar 2018 #8

r'd poboy2 Mar 2018 #9