Articolo da Defense One. Mette in luce la weaponization di FB attraverso SCL: si evidenzia la convergenza tecnologica tra targeted advertising, persuasione occulta e intelligence militare. Lo strumento messo a punto per vendere merce online viene potenziato (e legittimato) nella ricerca di radicalizzati online e finisce come "arma segreta" in mano a Bannon. <http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/03/facebook-just-blocked-cambridge...> [] Barack Obama stood up <http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/06/navy-seal-isis-messaging/128938...> the Global Engagement Center in 2016 to help counter ISIS propaganda online. Among other things, the Center was intended to use data provided by users of social media platforms to craft highly targeted messages,  use social networks to fight propaganda, in similar fashion as marketers use Facebook and Twitter to sell goods and services. The Center quickly turned to Facebook, according to Michael Lumpkin, the center’s founding director. “Using Facebook ads, I can go within Facebook, I can go grab an audience, I can pick Country X, I need age group 13 to 34, I need people who have liked — whether it’s Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi or any other set — I can shoot and hit them directly with messaging,” Lumpkin said at the 2016 Defense One Summit <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5TvHYzbiM0>. []