Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media | Politics | The Guardian

data_society's bookmarks 2017-02-27

Summary:

"The computer never stops learning and it never stops monitoring.” (FWIW, Robert Mercer is one of the people Xiaochang Li at MCC studies.)

Link:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage

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Date tagged:

02/27/2017, 00:48

Date published:

02/26/2017, 19:48