Cambridge Analytica, Psychometrics, Russia, and the Trump Campaign



Here’s the video. It’s worth a watch.

"In playing along with this line of conversation, and partly to spare our 'client' from embarrassment, we entertained a series of ludicrous hypothetical scenarios. I am aware how this looks, but it is simply not the case. I must emphatically state that Cambridge Analytica does not condone or engage in entrapment, bribes or so-called 'honeytraps', and nor does it use untrue material for any purpose.
It's not like they could have just said, "We don't do that" and cut contact or anything. Does this qualify as a lack of candor?
 
It's recently come to light that Russia purchased ads on Facebook targeted to influence the 2016 US Presidential election, specifically to amplify political divisions. Just today it is breaking that Russia posted targeted advertisements about BLM to communities in Ferguson and Baltimore. They also posted Ads boosting Bernie, and later, Jill Stein.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/26/media/facebook-russia-ads/index.html?iid=EL

http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/27/media/facebook-black-lives-matter-targeting/index.html

Cambridge Analytica is a data firm used by the Trump campaign which uses Psychometrics to analyze peoples' personalities, and then predict their behavior and what influences them. Using that information they create targeted ads to influence voters. This attached article is a terrific piece on Psychometrics. It's a bit long, but well worth the read.

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-data-that-turned-the-world-upside-down/

I think we will start to see some reporting on the links between Russia and CA. I feel like it is unlikely to be purely coincidence that these similarities in targeting voters exists in a vacuum from the confluence of other events surrounding the election, Russia, and the Trump campaign.


A fine leader you are.
 
So glad that obnoxious pinhead got himself banned (or so I understand). Now, he and Kone can jerk each other off all day, and keep us out of it.

Oledirty4sshole is banned? What was the final straw?
 
CA whistleblower Christopher Wiley is going to be on Don Lemon tonight.
 
LONDON (Reuters) - Cambridge Analytica, the UK political consultancy at the center of Facebook’s election manipulation scandal, ran the campaigns of President Uhuru Kenyatta in the 2013 and 2017 Kenyan elections, according to video secretly recorded and broadcast by Britain’s Channel 4 News on Monday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...presidents-campaigns-uk-tv-idUSKBN1GV300?il=0


I'm starting to think they are the evil international consortium from Quantum of Solace.
 
Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica:

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Clearly a Bond villain.
 
According to Christopher Wylie, who worked with the data firm Cambridge Analytica, the 2016 campaign had been in talks with the data firm before President Donald Trump ever announced he was running.

Cambridge Analytica is under fire from Facebook for distributing data on 15 million users, which is against their terms of service. He explained that the company was also working extensively with Russia including Russian oil companies and a psychologist that was working on Russian-funded projects going back and forth between London and Russia. The psychologist focused on profiling Facebook users’ personalities.
This person is Dr. Aleksander Kogan. Who, I am not bullshitting, briefly changed his name to Dr. Spectre. He works at Cambridge University AND University of St. Petersburg.


“So, I really think it’s important for Americans to know what this company has been doing with their data,” Wylie said. “And I really think it’s important to find out, was this data used to help elect Donald Trump.”

While he left the company in 2014, he said he knows that they were meeting with Trump campaign officials Corey Lewandowski and Steve Bannon in 2015 prior to Trump’s announcement.
So Lewendowski - Trumps first Campaign Chairman and Steve Bannon, Trump's third and final campaign chairman were both in contact with CA prior to Trump's official announcement. But we also know Trump trademarked MAGA in November 2012. And in between Lewendowski and Bannon you have the indicted Manafort.

He explained that Cambridge Analytica was born from another company that was a defense contractor based out of London. The data then was used to “profile algorithms to allow them to explore mental vulnerabilities in people and map out ways to inject information into different streams of channels of content online so people started to see things all over the place that may or may not have been true.”

Wylie said that Cambridge Analytica “took fake news to a new level by pairing it with algorithms.”

If enough information is injected into someone’s online experience and they’re being bombarded by it in many different places, there is a greater chance they’ll believe it, which he called “informational dominance.”

While political ads say the candidate’s name and proclaim “I approved this message,” the work by Cambridge Analytica has no disclosure requirement.

“What Cambridge Analytica does is create a web of disinformation online so people start going down the rabbit hole of clicking on blogs, websites, etc… that make people think that certain things are happening that may not be,” he continued.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/wh...g-key-trump-campaign-officials-far-back-2015/
Unfortunately this level and depth of propaganda is so far beyond the mental capacities of the average voter. Add in a little denial and the people most affected will never understand that their opinions on extremely important matters are deeply flawed by design.
 
would just like to say this is still a childish attempt. facebook adds and troll bots. i can only imagine what the chinese and americans can do and not get figured out. Russia is a strong country but a weaker one then it pretend to be it is owned by china in many ways and it old soviet allies.
 
This is one of the missing links. For political analysts here in the USA wondered how the russians targeted american voters precisely to suppress and or nudge votes.

Bombshell story!
 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the center of controversy in the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014.

Best known for assisting the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump, Cambridge Analytica is now facing a government search of its London office, questions from U.S. state authorities, and a demand by Facebook that it submit to a forensic audit.

Here is some of what is known about the company.


How did it start?

Cambridge Analytica is an offshoot of SCL Group, a government and military contractor that says it works on everything from food security research to counter-narcotics to political campaigns. SCL was founded more than 25 years ago, according to its website.

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

The company, which the New York Times reported was staffed by mostly British workers then, assisted Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign before helping Trump’s.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...alytica-and-what-did-it-do-idUSKBN1GW07F?il=0
 
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - British data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica is at the center of controversy in the United States and Britain after two newspapers reported on Sunday that the company harvested personal data about Facebook users beginning in 2014.

Best known for assisting the 2016 presidential campaign of U.S. President Donald Trump, Cambridge Analytica is now facing a government search of its London office, questions from U.S. state authorities, and a demand by Facebook that it submit to a forensic audit.

Here is some of what is known about the company.


How did it start?

Cambridge Analytica is an offshoot of SCL Group, a government and military contractor that says it works on everything from food security research to counter-narcotics to political campaigns. SCL was founded more than 25 years ago, according to its website.

Cambridge Analytica was created around 2013 initially with a focus on U.S. elections, with $15 million in backing from billionaire Republican donor Robert Mercer and a name chosen by future Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon, the New York Times reported.

The company, which the New York Times reported was staffed by mostly British workers then, assisted Republican Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign before helping Trump’s.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...alytica-and-what-did-it-do-idUSKBN1GW07F?il=0


Damn Prez, you nailed this story!
 
This is one of the missing links. For political analysts here in the USA wondered how the russians targeted american voters precisely to suppress and or nudge votes.

Bombshell story!

Yes it is. Facebook committed a crime.
 
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