Channel 4 (UK) has unraveled via a series of taped interviews how CambAnal boasted of its involvement in Brexit and the Trump 2016 campaign.
Apparently there really was “a factory for conspiracy-theory machines”.
#TrumpRussia and its smoldering arsenal now beginning to heat up… Cambridge Analytica (CambAnal) reveals in a news investigation how some of the tactics it used to influence the US election resembled Cold War active measures.
The reality yet to be discussed is how CambAnal operates with subcontractors and others who have alternative national motives considering how its history involves many national elections (SCL-Macedonia?) And yes, CambAnal is about Russians.
Patience is paying off, thanks to a combination of whistleblowers, academics, and despite their intransigence, MSM finally getting on this one aspect of the smoldering arsenal.
Amusing is CambAnal’s assumption that a neocolonial discourse context might protect their disclosures because the client was Sri Lankan.
CambAnal / SCL seems to have given damning evidence for the range of 2016 microtargeting so far unaddressed by principals like Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, and Brad Parscale.
An obvious question that a reconvened House Intel committee might ask is how much the above knew of CambAnal activities since they have not been shy in touting their association.
An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump.
The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump’s campaign and outside groups – an activity which is potentially illegal.
Executives claimed they “ran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy” for President Trump.
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The full scale of their pivotal work in Trump’s election win
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How they avoid Congressional investigations into their foreign clients
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Setting up proxy organisations to feed untraceable messages onto social media
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Using a secret email system where messages self-destruct and leave no trace
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Cambridge Analytica’s involvement in the “Defeat Crooked Hilary” brand of attack ads
Cambridge Analytica’s senior executives were also filmed discussing a twin-track strategy to campaigning, putting out positive messages through the official Donald J Trump for President campaign, while negative material was pushed out through outside organisations.
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Cambridge Analytica’s chief data scientist Dr Tayler said: “As part of it, sometimes you have to separate it from the political campaign itself. So in America you know there are independent expenditure groups running behind the campaign… Super pacs. Political action committees.
“So, campaigns are normally subject to limits about how much money they can raise. Whereas outside groups can raise an unlimited amount. So the campaign will use their finite resources for things like persuasion and mobilisation and then they leave the ‘air war’ they call it, like the negative attack ads to other affiliated groups.”
As discussed earlier, the weaponizing of Facebook data for over three years aided in the microtargeting strategy, the details of which are still being contested by a variety of lawfare actions related to data privacy.
The perfect storm’s data clouds are not only about ads but about social media activities which in the 2016 election included an FB sockpuppet attempt to incite an actual real world confrontation between opposition groups. And then there’s the actual hacking attempts on voter databases.
Darn genie is out the bottle, and whatever goes on in Sri Lanka, stays in Ceylon.
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
The admissions were filmed at a series of meetings at London hotels over four months, between November 2017 and January 2018. An undercover reporter for Channel 4 News posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.
Mr Nix told our reporter: “…we’re used to operating through different vehicles, in the shadows, and I look forward to building a very long-term and secretive relationship with you.”
Along with Mr Nix, the meetings also included Mark Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global, and the company’s chief data officer, Dr Alex Tayler.
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The report ... shows that Cambridge Analytica was actively planting false stories and using false fronts to disguise the source of information.
It confirms what Republican Representative Mike Conaway already let slip—that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee actively avoided finding any issues.
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