Christopher Wylie has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 2 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 64 ratings. The most-rated is Mindf*ck.
Mindf*ck
Summary
For the first time, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower tells the inside story of the data mining and psychological manipulation behind the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum, connecting Facebook, WikiLeaks, Russian intelligence, and international hackers. “Mindf*ck demonstrates how digital influence operations, when they converged with the nasty business of politics, managed to hollow out democracies.” (The Washington Post) Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Evening Standard Mindf*ck goes deep inside Cambridge Analytica’s "American operations", which were driven by Steve Bannon’s vision to remake America and fueled by mysterious billionaire Robert Mercer’s money, as it weaponized and wielded the massive store of data it had harvested on individuals - in excess of 87 million - to disunite the United States and set Americans against each other. Bannon had long sensed that deep within America’s soul lurked an explosive tension. Cambridge Analytica had the data to prove it, and in 2016 Bannon had a presidential campaign to use as his proving ground. Christopher Wylie might have seemed an unlikely figure to be at the center of such an operation. Canadian and liberal in his politics, he was only 24 when he got a job with a London firm that worked with the UK Ministry of Defense and was charged putatively with helping to build a team of data scientists to create new tools to identify and combat radical extremism online. In short order, those same military tools were turned to political purposes, and Cambridge Analytica was born. Wylie’s decision to become a whistleblower prompted the largest data-crime investigation in history. His story is both exposé and dire warning about a sudden problem born of very new and powerful capabilities. It has not only laid bare the profound vulnerabilities - and profound carelessness - in the enormous companies that drive the attention economy, it has also exposed the profound vulnerabilities of democracy itself. What happened in 2016 was just a trial run. Ruthless actors are coming for your data, and they want to control what you think.
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Mindf*ck
Summary
Dans ce témoignage inédit, le lanceur d'alerte Christopher Wylie nous raconte comment l'utilisation des données personnelles de dizaines de millions de personnes et des opérations de manipulations mentales menées à grande échelle ont permis à Donald Trump d'accéder au pouvoir, et au Brexit de l'emporter lors du référendum britannique. Wylie a été le premier à dénoncer les pratiques de la société pour laquelle il travaillait, Cambridge Analytica, et à pointer du doigt Facebook, WikiLeaks, les services de renseignement russes et des hackers du monde entier qui ont participé, plus ou moins activement, à ces opérations dont les conséquences politiques et géopolitiques nous concernent tous. Collecte de données, analyse de profils psychologiques, création et propagation massive de contenus : une véritable arme de guerre est tombée entre les mains de l'alt-right. Mindfuck ne révèle pas simplement les dangers de l'hyper-connectivité et des données personnelles utilisées par des entreprises privées, ce livre audio expose au grand jour les stratégies pour orienter le vote de millions de citoyens via des campagnes de communication ultraciblées qui ébranlent le libre-arbitre de chacun mais également les piliers de nos démocraties. Ce document de première-main, aussi sensationnel que stupéfiant, est un manifeste qui changera définitivement notre regard sur le monde numérique.
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