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Recursion

(56,582 posts)
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 04:00 PM Jan 2019

This has been the missing link for a while: where Russia got the voter targeting info

We know Russia hyper-targeted social media and other Internet ads using precinct-level voter data (they even paid Facebook in rubles).

The question has been: where did they get that voter data? It was conceivable they got it from the DNC hack, or from the much-less-publicized RNC hack. It was also possible they got it from the hacks of state voter registration systems.

The Manafort filing is important because it means Mueller has evidence that Trump's campaign manager was personally sending voter data and internal polling to a Russian operative.

No wonder he wants a shutdown.

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This has been the missing link for a while: where Russia got the voter targeting info (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2019 OP
Psy Group superpatriotman Jan 2019 #1
Yes, the PSY Group, who was paid by: dem in texas Jan 2019 #2
They did more than just use the data when they hacked voter reg databases. THey Amaryllis Jan 2019 #3

dem in texas

(2,674 posts)
2. Yes, the PSY Group, who was paid by:
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 06:59 PM
Jan 2019

The PSY group is an Israeli company that specializes in creating fake media and fake users on the internet. I read that Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirate and Israel paid PSY Group to work with Cambridge Analytical to create the internet attack that got Trump elected.

Amaryllis

(9,525 posts)
3. They did more than just use the data when they hacked voter reg databases. THey
Tue Jan 8, 2019, 10:02 PM
Jan 2019

also manipulated the data for voter suppression purposes.

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