Scrutiny mounts for Trump digital operation

[riversedge]

Source: the hill



By Morgan Chalfant - 10/27/17 06:01 AM EDT


Scrutiny on the digital side of President Trump’s 2016 campaign is mounting after revelations that the head of Cambridge Analytica, a data mining and analysis firm that worked for the campaign, contacted WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s emails.

The Daily Beast reported Wednesday that Alexander Nix, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, told a third party that he reached out to the WikiLeaks founder last year about the emails that Clinton deleted from the server she used while secretary of State.

The Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica millions during the 2016 presidential race. In the aftermath of the Assange revelations, aides have raced to distance the campaign from the firm.

The company, which is partially owned by the family of billionaire Trump supporter Robert Mercer, mines online data in order to target potential voters with personalized political messaging. It reportedly also worked on the United Kingdom's referendum over leaving the European Union. ........................................

Read more: http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/357423-scrutiny-mounts-for-trump-digital-operation

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Something has to stick!!

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[Hornedfrog1985]

1. We might have to

Go ukraine on these people.... we are the majority. They obviously used the hacked voter information to directly target people on facebook and twitter. Theyve infected our country with a virus.