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PeterReborn wrote:alma1 wrote:sitaki.kujulikana wrote:Ngalaka wrote:To believe that the so called Cambridge analytica had any significant influence in the way Kenyans voted in 2017 is to be gullible.
Propaganda happened (both ways - for/against and by both main groups) during the electioneering period and has always happened during such times analytica or no analytica.
In the end Kenyans voted largely in the same patterns and along the same lines we all expected them to.
This is also what I can not get my head around, the president has a better view of the county through intelligence briefings than what can be collected online from social media, those briefings are a big advantage an incumbent has especially in ke. I am yet to be convinced that, at the state we are at anyone can get a feel or influence the country, politically through social media. You can continue not believing till hell freezes over. Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, this company is being tamed. South Africa got rid of them. The UK is opening their servers. Facebook is loosing billions of dollars in value in days. Only an ostrich could not see the pattern of media information and social media harlots receiving the same info and spreading the same info. The biggest culprits were Nation Newspapers. They might as well have been a PR firm. By the way, where was Alex Chamwada working. He can explain things better I think. Kabisa.I am sure you have seen the harassment that has been melted on the 'whistle blower' Chris for exposing them.Facebook willingly gave out data for over 50m users and then claim that there was no data breach.If they have the capacity to analyse data of over 50m users what about less than 20m voters? Nasa MP's who are always running around looking for yellow yellows should be very worried. Samson and Delilah just went digital. Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?
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alma1 wrote:KulaRaha wrote:[quote=Wakanyugi]
This is not how I have understood CA's role. I saw it more as a data mining company, which I think was how Tycho introduced this thread. Again I could be wrong.
While a political campaign certainly could use data mining to craft messages, it needs behaviour/preference/intention data, the kind that your facebook profile can easily show. My point is, a low tech society like ours has slim pickings in terms of useful data to be mined and don't tell me about Mpesa.
It benefits CA's image to push this myth of all seeing greatness and the fear that goes with it. But let me ask you: if they were so good, won't we have seen attempts by Facebook or Google to buy them out? After all these are the two corporates whose future is most strongly tied to the capacity influence thinking and behavior.
Actually very wrong. And Turnbull, in the secret recording by Channel 4, reveals the much they delivered for the UhuRuto and Jubilee Party campaigns:
“The Kenyatta campaign which we ran in 2013 and 2017,” he starts off.
“And what have you done in Kenya?” poses Channel 4 journalist.
“We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their manifesto, done two rounds of 50,000 or so surveys… Then we’d write all the speeches, and we’d stage the whole thing. So just about every element of his campaign.”https://youtu.be/mpbeOCKZFfQ[/quote] look at the recipients of the national medals and get an understanding of what was going on. Jubilee was created somewhere in the USA. I mean, even speeches? But I doubt if "mnataka nifanye nini" is one of the speeches. Maybe Tycho can write for us a thesis on how to hoodwink Kenyans to think they are thinking independently. Yet, they are being told what to think, who to hate and which lies to accept. Thanks for clarifying. I had another smart reposite all set to go but I see Ngalaka beat me to it (damn!): Anyway, here it is: What did this change? Did the voting patterns change? The outcome that we expected (not hoped for)? If CA had flipped a die-hard NASA voting block like Coast, Western or Nyanza into Jubilees column, beyond anything that could have been achieved by good old fashioned rigging for instance, I would begin to believe their hype. Despite all this, I could even be charitable were it not for a pattern I have observed. Over the past 20 years I have noticed that a Western company or organisation has claimed credit for the results of almost every election ever held in a non developed country. They did it for Russia, before Putin showed them the door, recently for Gambia, Liberia...are you surprised that Kenya has made it into their self glorification column? "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
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Wakanyugi wrote:alma1 wrote:KulaRaha wrote:[quote=Wakanyugi]
This is not how I have understood CA's role. I saw it more as a data mining company, which I think was how Tycho introduced this thread. Again I could be wrong.
While a political campaign certainly could use data mining to craft messages, it needs behaviour/preference/intention data, the kind that your facebook profile can easily show. My point is, a low tech society like ours has slim pickings in terms of useful data to be mined and don't tell me about Mpesa.
It benefits CA's image to push this myth of all seeing greatness and the fear that goes with it. But let me ask you: if they were so good, won't we have seen attempts by Facebook or Google to buy them out? After all these are the two corporates whose future is most strongly tied to the capacity influence thinking and behavior.
Actually very wrong. And Turnbull, in the secret recording by Channel 4, reveals the much they delivered for the UhuRuto and Jubilee Party campaigns:
“The Kenyatta campaign which we ran in 2013 and 2017,” he starts off.
“And what have you done in Kenya?” poses Channel 4 journalist.
“We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their manifesto, done two rounds of 50,000 or so surveys… Then we’d write all the speeches, and we’d stage the whole thing. So just about every element of his campaign.”https://youtu.be/mpbeOCKZFfQ[/quote] look at the recipients of the national medals and get an understanding of what was going on. Jubilee was created somewhere in the USA. I mean, even speeches? But I doubt if "mnataka nifanye nini" is one of the speeches. Maybe Tycho can write for us a thesis on how to hoodwink Kenyans to think they are thinking independently. Yet, they are being told what to think, who to hate and which lies to accept. Thanks for clarifying. I had another smart reposite all set to go but I see Ngalaka beat me to it (damn!): Anyway, here it is: What did this change? Did the voting patterns change? The outcome that we expected (not hoped for)? If CA had flipped a die-hard NASA voting block like Coast, Western or Nyanza into Jubilees column, beyond anything that could have been achieved by good old fashioned rigging for instance, I would begin to believe their hype. Despite all this, I could even be charitable were it not for a pattern I have observed. Over the past 20 years I have noticed that a Western company or organisation has claimed credit for the results of almost every election ever held in a non developed country. They did it for Russia, before Putin showed them the door, recently for Gambia, Liberia...are you surprised that Kenya has made it into their self glorification column? Wakanyugi, do you believe that Uhuru is such a charitable person that he hires white men who have nothing to offer him? Oh, CA, come over, here's my money. I know kenyans don't use Twitter, but here's 1 gazillion dollars to offer services that have absolutely no effect on anything. I know of people who were so scared of saitan that they would have died in the snow just not to see him. Those same people are very confused right now. The daily drip drip of "we want peace", "saitan", were a playbook from one of the first videos from CA. Google it and you shall see that all the problems in Kenya start and end with Saitan. Mlichezwa kama gitaa. Na mkatii. As the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to never have it happen again, in Kenya we are saying we don't have whatsapp. Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?
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@Wakanyugi, the question as to whether CA caused any change in the last elections may be quite tricky because the main opposition was out of the race.
2013? There may be reasons to suspect that such actions of the CA would have made a difference.
But I'd like to ask: Are such actions by the CA powerful enough to affect decisions?
What are the implications of major policy makers to take a position of nudging populations to certain ideas and actions?
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alma1 wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:alma1 wrote:KulaRaha wrote:[quote=Wakanyugi]
This is not how I have understood CA's role. I saw it more as a data mining company, which I think was how Tycho introduced this thread. Again I could be wrong.
While a political campaign certainly could use data mining to craft messages, it needs behaviour/preference/intention data, the kind that your facebook profile can easily show. My point is, a low tech society like ours has slim pickings in terms of useful data to be mined and don't tell me about Mpesa.
It benefits CA's image to push this myth of all seeing greatness and the fear that goes with it. But let me ask you: if they were so good, won't we have seen attempts by Facebook or Google to buy them out? After all these are the two corporates whose future is most strongly tied to the capacity influence thinking and behavior.
Actually very wrong. And Turnbull, in the secret recording by Channel 4, reveals the much they delivered for the UhuRuto and Jubilee Party campaigns:
“The Kenyatta campaign which we ran in 2013 and 2017,” he starts off.
“And what have you done in Kenya?” poses Channel 4 journalist.
“We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their manifesto, done two rounds of 50,000 or so surveys… Then we’d write all the speeches, and we’d stage the whole thing. So just about every element of his campaign.”https://youtu.be/mpbeOCKZFfQ[/quote] look at the recipients of the national medals and get an understanding of what was going on. Jubilee was created somewhere in the USA. I mean, even speeches? But I doubt if "mnataka nifanye nini" is one of the speeches. Maybe Tycho can write for us a thesis on how to hoodwink Kenyans to think they are thinking independently. Yet, they are being told what to think, who to hate and which lies to accept. Thanks for clarifying. I had another smart reposite all set to go but I see Ngalaka beat me to it (damn!): Anyway, here it is: What did this change? Did the voting patterns change? The outcome that we expected (not hoped for)? If CA had flipped a die-hard NASA voting block like Coast, Western or Nyanza into Jubilees column, beyond anything that could have been achieved by good old fashioned rigging for instance, I would begin to believe their hype. Despite all this, I could even be charitable were it not for a pattern I have observed. Over the past 20 years I have noticed that a Western company or organisation has claimed credit for the results of almost every election ever held in a non developed country. They did it for Russia, before Putin showed them the door, recently for Gambia, Liberia...are you surprised that Kenya has made it into their self glorification column? Wakanyugi, do you believe that Uhuru is such a charitable person that he hires white men who have nothing to offer him? Oh, CA, come over, here's my money. I know kenyans don't use Twitter, but here's 1 gazillion dollars to offer services that have absolutely no effect on anything. I know of people who were so scared of saitan that they would have died in the snow just not to see him. Those same people are very confused right now. The daily drip drip of "we want peace", "saitan", were a playbook from one of the first videos from CA. Google it and you shall see that all the problems in Kenya start and end with Saitan. Mlichezwa kama gitaa. Na mkatii. As the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to never have it happen again, in Kenya we are saying we don't have whatsapp. I actually believe Jubilee were sold fake goods. But that seems par for the political crowd. NASA paid millions to some Canadian and Ghanian cons who claimed they could somehow 'protect the vote.' I laughed later when my Ghanian friend told me there was never anything like protecting the vote in Ghana, it was simply a catchy election slogan that happened to arrive at the same time as the people were getting fed up with the lot in power anyway. Trying to convince me that CA was the factor that won the election for Jubilee is a major stretch, even if we were somehow to ignore just how hard NASA worked to beat themselves; ie, their sheer incompetence all round; the decision to front a previously rejected candidate; the inept 'non-campaign' that followed or even the foolish decision to boycott an election in the hope that somehow this would...what? Shame their opponents into throwing in the towel? I have never understood that one If this conversation was about 2013, I could give you the benefit of the doubt. But NASA actually started losing the 2017 election way back in 2015/16 if not before - remember when Jubilee consolidated and beat them again at registering voters? CA was not in the picture then were they? "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
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tycho wrote:@Wakanyugi, the question as to whether CA caused any change in the last elections may be quite tricky because the main opposition was out of the race.
2013? There may be reasons to suspect that such actions of the CA would have made a difference.
But I'd like to ask: Are such actions by the CA powerful enough to affect decisions?
What are the implications of major policy makers to take a position of nudging populations to certain ideas and actions? Good points Tycho. This is where scholarship may be useful in debunking some myths that have grown to assume Papal infallibility. One of them is that elections are decided by flipping people who were going to vote one way into voting another. Not true, not even in America, where we are made to believe people vote on issues. Elections are decided by people voting their interests, those who feel their interests are not well represented tend to stay home. Whether these interests align with tribe, clans, castes, social classes etc is besides the point. The winner is the one who can convince the largest number that he represents their interest or that the other guy is a threat to those interests - something you do by simple campaigning or old fashioned advertising. Social media is a cheaper platform for delivering these messages but that is about it. "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." (Niels Bohr)
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Wakanyugi wrote:alma1 wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:alma1 wrote:KulaRaha wrote:[quote=Wakanyugi]
This is not how I have understood CA's role. I saw it more as a data mining company, which I think was how Tycho introduced this thread. Again I could be wrong.
While a political campaign certainly could use data mining to craft messages, it needs behaviour/preference/intention data, the kind that your facebook profile can easily show. My point is, a low tech society like ours has slim pickings in terms of useful data to be mined and don't tell me about Mpesa.
It benefits CA's image to push this myth of all seeing greatness and the fear that goes with it. But let me ask you: if they were so good, won't we have seen attempts by Facebook or Google to buy them out? After all these are the two corporates whose future is most strongly tied to the capacity influence thinking and behavior.
Actually very wrong. And Turnbull, in the secret recording by Channel 4, reveals the much they delivered for the UhuRuto and Jubilee Party campaigns:
“The Kenyatta campaign which we ran in 2013 and 2017,” he starts off.
“And what have you done in Kenya?” poses Channel 4 journalist.
“We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their manifesto, done two rounds of 50,000 or so surveys… Then we’d write all the speeches, and we’d stage the whole thing. So just about every element of his campaign.”https://youtu.be/mpbeOCKZFfQ[/quote] look at the recipients of the national medals and get an understanding of what was going on. Jubilee was created somewhere in the USA. I mean, even speeches? But I doubt if "mnataka nifanye nini" is one of the speeches. Maybe Tycho can write for us a thesis on how to hoodwink Kenyans to think they are thinking independently. Yet, they are being told what to think, who to hate and which lies to accept. Thanks for clarifying. I had another smart reposite all set to go but I see Ngalaka beat me to it (damn!): Anyway, here it is: What did this change? Did the voting patterns change? The outcome that we expected (not hoped for)? If CA had flipped a die-hard NASA voting block like Coast, Western or Nyanza into Jubilees column, beyond anything that could have been achieved by good old fashioned rigging for instance, I would begin to believe their hype. Despite all this, I could even be charitable were it not for a pattern I have observed. Over the past 20 years I have noticed that a Western company or organisation has claimed credit for the results of almost every election ever held in a non developed country. They did it for Russia, before Putin showed them the door, recently for Gambia, Liberia...are you surprised that Kenya has made it into their self glorification column? Wakanyugi, do you believe that Uhuru is such a charitable person that he hires white men who have nothing to offer him? Oh, CA, come over, here's my money. I know kenyans don't use Twitter, but here's 1 gazillion dollars to offer services that have absolutely no effect on anything. I know of people who were so scared of saitan that they would have died in the snow just not to see him. Those same people are very confused right now. The daily drip drip of "we want peace", "saitan", were a playbook from one of the first videos from CA. Google it and you shall see that all the problems in Kenya start and end with Saitan. Mlichezwa kama gitaa. Na mkatii. As the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to never have it happen again, in Kenya we are saying we don't have whatsapp. I actually believe Jubilee were sold fake goods. But that seems par for the political crowd. NASA paid millions to some Canadian and Ghanian cons who claimed they could somehow 'protect the vote.' I laughed later when my Ghanian friend told me there was never anything like protecting the vote in Ghana, it was simply a catchy election slogan that happened to arrive at the same time as the people were getting fed up with the lot in power anyway. Trying to convince me that CA was the factor that won the election for Jubilee is a major stretch, even if we were somehow to ignore just how hard NASA worked to beat themselves; ie, their sheer incompetence all round; the decision to front a previously rejected candidate; the inept 'non-campaign' that followed or even the foolish decision to boycott an election in the hope that somehow this would...what? Shame their opponents into throwing in the towel? I have never understood that one If this conversation was about 2013, I could give you the benefit of the doubt. But NASA actually started losing the 2017 election way back in 2015/16 if not before - remember when Jubilee consolidated and beat them again at registering voters? CA was not in the picture then were they? Yeah...I think we underestimate CA's profit motive. They seem to be drumming up business in that video. HOWEVER: If as @Peter reborn up there points out that the people who worked with CA had post-election positions in government and are rolling out the Western agenda as intended, then CA had an even worse effect than just the election. My Dad used to say that when the British left in the 60's the installed Africans (PC's, DC's, DO'S PS's etc) to continue colonialism...Maybe history is repeating itself?
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Dahatre wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:alma1 wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:alma1 wrote:KulaRaha wrote:[quote=Wakanyugi]
This is not how I have understood CA's role. I saw it more as a data mining company, which I think was how Tycho introduced this thread. Again I could be wrong.
While a political campaign certainly could use data mining to craft messages, it needs behaviour/preference/intention data, the kind that your facebook profile can easily show. My point is, a low tech society like ours has slim pickings in terms of useful data to be mined and don't tell me about Mpesa.
It benefits CA's image to push this myth of all seeing greatness and the fear that goes with it. But let me ask you: if they were so good, won't we have seen attempts by Facebook or Google to buy them out? After all these are the two corporates whose future is most strongly tied to the capacity influence thinking and behavior.
Actually very wrong. And Turnbull, in the secret recording by Channel 4, reveals the much they delivered for the UhuRuto and Jubilee Party campaigns:
“The Kenyatta campaign which we ran in 2013 and 2017,” he starts off.
“And what have you done in Kenya?” poses Channel 4 journalist.
“We have rebranded the entire party twice, written their manifesto, done two rounds of 50,000 or so surveys… Then we’d write all the speeches, and we’d stage the whole thing. So just about every element of his campaign.”https://youtu.be/mpbeOCKZFfQ[/quote] look at the recipients of the national medals and get an understanding of what was going on. Jubilee was created somewhere in the USA. I mean, even speeches? But I doubt if "mnataka nifanye nini" is one of the speeches. Maybe Tycho can write for us a thesis on how to hoodwink Kenyans to think they are thinking independently. Yet, they are being told what to think, who to hate and which lies to accept. Thanks for clarifying. I had another smart reposite all set to go but I see Ngalaka beat me to it (damn!): Anyway, here it is: What did this change? Did the voting patterns change? The outcome that we expected (not hoped for)? If CA had flipped a die-hard NASA voting block like Coast, Western or Nyanza into Jubilees column, beyond anything that could have been achieved by good old fashioned rigging for instance, I would begin to believe their hype. Despite all this, I could even be charitable were it not for a pattern I have observed. Over the past 20 years I have noticed that a Western company or organisation has claimed credit for the results of almost every election ever held in a non developed country. They did it for Russia, before Putin showed them the door, recently for Gambia, Liberia...are you surprised that Kenya has made it into their self glorification column? Wakanyugi, do you believe that Uhuru is such a charitable person that he hires white men who have nothing to offer him? Oh, CA, come over, here's my money. I know kenyans don't use Twitter, but here's 1 gazillion dollars to offer services that have absolutely no effect on anything. I know of people who were so scared of saitan that they would have died in the snow just not to see him. Those same people are very confused right now. The daily drip drip of "we want peace", "saitan", were a playbook from one of the first videos from CA. Google it and you shall see that all the problems in Kenya start and end with Saitan. Mlichezwa kama gitaa. Na mkatii. As the rest of the world is trying to figure out how to never have it happen again, in Kenya we are saying we don't have whatsapp. I actually believe Jubilee were sold fake goods. But that seems par for the political crowd. NASA paid millions to some Canadian and Ghanian cons who claimed they could somehow 'protect the vote.' I laughed later when my Ghanian friend told me there was never anything like protecting the vote in Ghana, it was simply a catchy election slogan that happened to arrive at the same time as the people were getting fed up with the lot in power anyway. Trying to convince me that CA was the factor that won the election for Jubilee is a major stretch, even if we were somehow to ignore just how hard NASA worked to beat themselves; ie, their sheer incompetence all round; the decision to front a previously rejected candidate; the inept 'non-campaign' that followed or even the foolish decision to boycott an election in the hope that somehow this would...what? Shame their opponents into throwing in the towel? I have never understood that one If this conversation was about 2013, I could give you the benefit of the doubt. But NASA actually started losing the 2017 election way back in 2015/16 if not before - remember when Jubilee consolidated and beat them again at registering voters? CA was not in the picture then were they? Yeah...I think we underestimate CA's profit motive. They seem to be drumming up business in that video. HOWEVER: If as @Peter reborn up there points out that the people who worked with CA had post-election positions in government and are rolling out the Western agenda as intended, then CA had an even worse effect than just the election. My Dad used to say that when the British left in the 60's the installed Africans (PC's, DC's, DO'S PS's etc) to continue colonialism...Maybe history is repeating itself? There you go. And I ask you again to look at the list of super kenyans from last year. Also take time and read this piece on their workings especially in African countries. How they work and what their end objectives are. https://qz.com/1089911/b...a-is-raising-questions/
Thieves are not good people. Tumeelewana?
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alma1 wrote: I mean Mukiri. What was the difference between reading Pauline, Wahome etc and listening to Kameme or Kass FM.
The narrative was very clear. The story was the same. Even here on wazua.
Since now Raira is one of us, let us now blame tech people.
I'm 100% sure that everyone on wazua read Hardwoods story and went to repeat it to the un-tech savvy cucu in gishagi.
@alma if you have never received threats or been followed by cops then your opinion on wazua is among the 100%. Some few of us think for our selves, Jesus said it will be hard to have your own values, to win yourself, your spirit, in the last days, utashinda na ma police and NIS in your case, even roughed up in your premises, sio mchezo vile watu wengi wanifikiri kuwa na opinion ni rahisi, why did moi used to send cops to listen to peoples conversations in dingy barts in corner? Chunga sana, it's way risky than you think, na hakuna pesa vile unafikiria. Ras Kienyeji Man
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