The integrity of democratic electoral process is vulnerable to the marketing strategies employed in the consumer marketplace.
Dirty politics:
allegations of corruption,fraud,cheating, ...and rigging of elections
The sheeple are gullible/suggestible and easily manipulated/influenced by marketing techniques.
Capturing votes in an election campaign is no different than persuading people to buy a brand of soap/soup!
How AI algorithms sway election results:
(cyberbots and cyberwarfare)
It wasn't just the Russians who meddled in the 2016 US presid3ntial election.
Other corporate "sabateurs-for-hire" also had a hand in corrupting the election process.
http://time.com/5216680/cambridge-analytica-christopher-wylie-predecessor-poisoned/
Whistleblower Christopher Wylie told the U.K.'s Guardian, which broke Wylie's confession that he used the illegally harvested private information of more than 50 million Facebook users for a Bannon-run company called Cambridge Analytica to target voters on behalf of Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. election campaign.
Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the personal data of millions of Americans was allegedly misused by a consulting firm working for Donald Trump's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, is renewing calls for a tech sector code of ethics.
http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-current
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-43558876
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When does persuading others in the course of pursueing one's own interests become unethical?
Is anytjing "off limits" in selling a political candidate to the public?
Or is everything fair game in love and political warfare?
