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The Digital Bridge

The Digital Bridge

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Based on Chapter 4

Episode Description: From the jungles of Vietnam to the server farms of Silicon Valley, the cost of influence is collapsing. We listen to the haunting "Ghost Tape No. 10," a supernatural PsyOp used against the Viet Cong. Then, we fast-forward to the digital age, analyzing how ISIS used "Grand Theft Auto" aesthetics to gamify terror, and how Cambridge Analytica turned military-grade psychological targeting against civilian voters. This is the moment the "public square" died and the "feed" took over.

Keywords: cambridge analytica, isis, vietnam war, social media, psychological operations, big data, privacy, election interference, facebook, history

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