Cambridge Analytica, a defense contractor turned elections division breached the boundary between the military industrial complex and free and fair elections with its involvement in the United States elections. Legal truth is the only pure truth in an era of distorted media and social media, which is why the UK Information Commissioner's forensic investigation on the servers seized under criminal warrant is crucial in finding the truth.
The US has been consumed by post-hoc rationalizing about Trump's election for four years, while the UK quickly moves on from politics to other distractions like Love Island.
Recent allegations have emerged about content being distributed on the dark web which cannot be traced by law enforcement, potentially including the sale or live streaming of torture and murder in "red rooms."
American Media Inc. purchased popular tabloids, such as the National Enquirer and the Globe in 1999, but posted a huge loss of $160 million and faced a debt of a billion dollars in 2006.
In this podcast episode, the guest emphasizes on the potential of low-cost media in empowering democracy and promoting out-of-the-box thinking. The episode delves into the hope that was once placed on the internet to make information more accessible to people.
The speaker questions the phase transition for a system to become corrupt enough to rig elections, pondering how many malevolent individuals it would take, while pointing out that today's electoral mechanisms are generally robust enough to correct any corrupt activity. Past examples, like the 1850s settlers in Kansas, also demonstrate the self-correcting mechanisms of elections.