A voter analytics firm was able to harvest data from millions of mobile phones of Americans during the 2020 lockdowns and assigned people a Covid-19 decree violation and concern score. Then election-related messages were targeted to the phone users. This had an electoral impact: “The result — the Arizona Dems Coordinated Campaign in support of now U.S. Senator Mark Kelly was able to deploy this real-time location model to open up just over 40,000 persuasion targets that normally would have fallen off, allowing them to give the right message to the right voter at the right time.”
This story shows that a type of bad “social credit” is already being used for political millage, and will be used again, perhaps not using Covid this time round, but the war in the Ukraine might be another case in point. Big Tech is certainly out of control, and desperately needs to be put back in its cage.