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John Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica to make Facebook users less limp wristed about war
In an interview with the New York Times, Wylie says that Boltons PAC was alarmed by polling trends showing that more and more Americans viewed war unfavorably and it wanted to construct an advertising campaign aimed at reversing those views.
The Bolton PAC was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues, said Wylie, a data expert who was a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Analytica. That really meant making people more militaristic in their worldview. Thats what they said they wanted, anyway.
Boltons PAC hired Cambridge Analytica months after it was founded in 2014, and the firms work with Boltons group became an example that it used to pitch potential clients about the value of its data harvesting model.
Emails viewed by the Times suggest that former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon had some role in setting up contacts between Bolton and Cambridge Analytica, as an email from a Cambridge Analytica employee sent to Bolton specifically mentioned Bannon in its subject header.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/john-bolton-paid-cambridge-analytica-make-facebook-users-less-limp-wristed-war/
In an interview with the New York Times, Wylie says that Boltons PAC was alarmed by polling trends showing that more and more Americans viewed war unfavorably and it wanted to construct an advertising campaign aimed at reversing those views.
The Bolton PAC was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues, said Wylie, a data expert who was a key figure in the founding of Cambridge Analytica. That really meant making people more militaristic in their worldview. Thats what they said they wanted, anyway.
Boltons PAC hired Cambridge Analytica months after it was founded in 2014, and the firms work with Boltons group became an example that it used to pitch potential clients about the value of its data harvesting model.
Emails viewed by the Times suggest that former Trump political strategist Steve Bannon had some role in setting up contacts between Bolton and Cambridge Analytica, as an email from a Cambridge Analytica employee sent to Bolton specifically mentioned Bannon in its subject header.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/john-bolton-paid-cambridge-analytica-make-facebook-users-less-limp-wristed-war/
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John Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica to make Facebook users less "limp wristed" about war (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Mar 2018
OP
Let's see if I understand correctly - russia meddles in our election in 2016...and around the
asiliveandbreathe
Mar 2018
#4
hlthe2b
(102,378 posts)1. well, if that doesn't make Zuckerberg 'proud'...
Gawd.
Kingofalldems
(38,486 posts)2. He wants war as long as he doesn't have to go.
California_Republic
(1,826 posts)3. War. - Like
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)4. Let's see if I understand correctly - russia meddles in our election in 2016...and around the
world - Iran hacks proprietary information - research - from Universities around the world...and the CA bannon/Bolton affect, mines OUR facebook data to reverse OUR view - "more and more Americans viewed war unfavorably"...
Rosenstein holds presser on Iran...I have a very uneasy feeling we are back to creating another iraq wmd scenario - with boltons hand all over it...so much evil working in the WH...
eleny
(46,166 posts)5. Kick for the evening crowd
Rachel followed in your footsteps and covered this tonight.