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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMust read Motherboard's - deep dive on Cambridge Analytics + Russian/CA connection
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win
http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/211152/trump-data-analytics-russian-access
Cambridge Analyticas British parent company, SCL is owned by Russia
Louise Mensch posted these on Twitter. Both amazing reads
Louise/articles Voter databases hacked by Russia, information is read/copied, then server in Alfa Bank passes Americans' info back to Russia.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)Add to that, voter rolls held by private and public bodies in specific areas were believed to be hacked as well. What if those rolls were stolen by the Russians and passed over to CA for analysis ?
It might not be all one way traffic.
Stinky The Clown
(67,808 posts)During the campaign, Jarvank's job was to coordinate between this outfit and all activities of others inside the Trump camp.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Robert Mercer, the gazillionaire and Steve Bannon.
This Guardian piece is marvelously detailed about how they use Cam. Anal.
and in it, Cambridge Anal. says it is is USA owned.
This part is halfway down the piece about Robert Mercer....and talks of plans to use computer program to predict voters choices.
Cambridge Analytica worked for the Trump campaign and, so Id read, the Leave campaign. When Mercer supported Cruz, Cambridge Analytica worked with Cruz. When Robert Mercer started supporting Trump, Cambridge Analytica came too. And where Mercers money is, Steve Bannon is usually close by: it was reported that until recently he had a seat on the board.
Last December, I wrote about Cambridge Analytica in a piece about how Googles search results on certain subjects were being dominated by rightwing and extremist sites. Jonathan Albright, a professor of communications at Elon University, North Carolina, who had mapped the news ecosystem and found millions of links between rightwing sites strangling the mainstream media, told me that trackers from sites like Breitbart could also be used by companies like Cambridge Analytica to follow people around the web and then, via Facebook, target them with ads.
On its website, Cambridge Analytica makes the astonishing boast that it has psychological profiles based on 5,000 separate pieces of data on 220 million American voters its USP is to use this data to understand peoples deepest emotions and then target them accordingly. The system, according to Albright, amounted to a propaganda machine.
A few weeks later, the Observer received a letter. Cambridge Analytica was not employed by the Leave campaign, it said. Cambridge Analytica is a US company based in the US. It hasnt worked in British politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb/26/robert-mercer-breitbart-war-on-media-steve-bannon-donald-trump-nigel-farage
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)She was saying something almost comprehensible about developing a "wall" of propaganda for Trump.
she said this after the election when she was feeling cocky and had not yet been muzzled.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)BSdetect
(8,998 posts)TransitJohn
(6,932 posts)Have a look if you want.
The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016179619
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine
Cheers.