NEVER MIND THE ALGORITHMS: THE ROLE OF CLICK FARMS AND EXPLOITED DIGITAL LABOR IN TRUMPS ELECTION

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http://www.casilli.fr/2016/11/20/never-mind-the-algorithms-the-role-of-exploited-digital-labor-and-global-click-farms-in-trumps-election/

Antonio A. Casilli

NEVER MIND THE ALGORITHMS: THE ROLE OF CLICK FARMS AND EXPLOITED DIGITAL LABOR IN TRUMP’S ELECTION
20 November 2016adminBlog
The debate over who, in the media and in the IT scene, is responsible for Trump’s victory is just starting. I have been claiming for a long time that the issue is not an algorithmic one. The “algorithmic” candidate was Hillary Clinton: she embraced the big data targeting approach that helped Obama’s victory in 2012, and it seems that her campaign was coordinated by a data processing system called Ada.

On the contrary, the secret of the Talking Combover’s victorious campaign is the exploitation of crowds of “click workers”, most of them located on the other side of the globe. If Hillary Clinton spent $ 450 millions, by comparison Trump spent less (about half of her budget), by under-paying subcontractors recruited on micro-work platforms.

An army of digital pieceworkers living in developing countries

Maybe you have read the bitter-sweet news about a Singapore teenager who helped create a Prezi presentation for Trump. She was recruited on Fiverr, a platform where, for a few bucks, you can buy copywriters, graphic designers or coders. Those micro-workers live in more than 200 countries, but less well-paid tasks are mainly allocated to South-East Asian workers. This young Singaporean’s inspiring story must not distract from the real topic here: Trump customarily outsourced the production of campaign materials to underpaid digital pieceworkers recruited on digital labor platforms. The secret weapon of this racist, misogynistic candidate, well-known for shortchanging his employees was the exploitation of underage Asian crowdworkers. Who would have thought?

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[Grey Lemercier]

1. Donald Trump's Japanese ad by Mike Diva goes viral, fooling many along the way

Even "attempts" at humour help elect the fucker by given him a fuzzy warm pop feel and a hipster cache

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/81273956/Donald-Trumps-Japanese-ad-by-Mike-Diva-goes-viral-fooling-many-along-the-way

NORTH HOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR CREATES JAPANESE DONALD TRUMP AD, GETS 13M VIEWS

http://abc7.com/politics/noho-director-creates-japanese-donald-trump-ad-gets-13m-views/1391291/

[treestar]

2. It is the existence of the electoral college and that alone

He lost by normal election terms. In no other country on earth could he have gotten the office.

[SticksnStones]

3. Following the Twitter link you provided

Reading thru his feed brings up this gem:






He does this every time he has bad news. He is controlling the narrative. Every time. A master at his heinous craft.