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Published 6 years ago by maelstorm with 8 Comments

Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm

An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign - and may have broken election law. Executives were secretly filmed saying they leave ‘no paper trail’.

 
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  • jcscher
    +8

    40,000 votes in three states!

    • AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
      +4

      It's been refreshing to see this story bring Democrats' sour grapes back to things that actually affected the election. Of course it couldn't last. Coming around to the American side of the story, this documentary is perfectly content to cough up DNC talking points as inviolate truth, and to soft-pedal uncomfortable truths as Cambridge Analytica lies. Why did I expect anything else from New Labour?

      Oh, there's Hillary Clinton blaming her loss to Donald Trump of all people on anything and everything again. Huh, it's just her dripping contempt for poor, misguided fools. That's odd. How long before spin-the-bottle-of-blame lands on Sanders supporters? Here we are, at 10:10 in the video. The DNC's blatant rigging of the primary process is waved away as a C.A. disinformation campaign, as opposed to part and parcel of Clinton's being one of the most loathed and despised presidential candidates in American history, along with the guy she lost to.

      But when are we going to be told it was "the" Russians hiding under your bed that stole the crown rightfully hers? Oh, here it comes, you can tell by the ominous gurgling sound something's coming down the pipe: "It was only after Donald Trump's victory that alarm bells sounded over the scale of disinformation during the election..." Plug your nose, this is going to be ripe.

      By 11:10, you'd better have your wellies on. "First, American intelligence agencies confirmed that Russia had hacked the Democrats." No, the Democrats' hired-gun security consultants determined it was "the" Russians, then refused to hand over the servers they made that determination from to the FBI. Yes, top level surveillance state officials did issue a report that specifically said there was no proof it was "the" Russians, which was distorted by one-and-all Democratic talking heads to claim that somehow 17 U.S. spy agencies found that it was "the" Russians, as if Coast Guard Intelligence had independently determined Hillary hadn't let us down, "the" Russians had taken her down. Brace yourself, it just keeps coming.

      "Then it emerged Russia was behind massive and fake news and adverts on social media." By which she means a hundred thousand dollar ad campaign, that favored both sides, mostly ran after the election, and amounts to less than one percent of one percent of presidential campaign spending. And we're off to the RussiaGhaziPalooza races all over again.

      This is what happens when you use Republicans for Democrats, and Tories for Labour. The Nixon White House, Roger Stone-Murray Chottiner 'dirty tricks' ratfuckery becomes your own. The DNC's Cambridge Analytica was Orbis, but we're in the land of make believe now, where guilt-by-association is supposed to make up for having any policies that would've convinced voters to vote for you.

      At 12:26, heavy is the head that does not wear the crown, and Hillary sayeth: "You've got Cambridge Analytica, you've got the Republican National Committee, which of course had always done data collection and analysis and you've got 'the' Russians. And the real question is how did 'the' Russians know how to target their messages so precisely to undecided voters in Wisconsin, or Michigan or Pennsylvania." Gee, if only you'd been there yourself, maybe you could've done something. Maybe if you hadn't been such a transparent liar, say for instance about your opposition to TPP and Keystone XL, or about your gross negligence surrounding yor emails, that could've helped.

      We're meant to accept ...

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    • iamsanchez
      +4

      That's all it took. They better patch this before the mid-terms.

      • AdelleChattre (edited 6 years ago)
        +3

        Hindsight being 20:20, do you think it would've helped if Hillary Clinton'd made different choices about campaigning on how we would "never, ever" have single-payer healthcare, war with Russia and by-the-way China, and how the TPP is the "gold standard" of trade agreements? Something tells me we're not going to get a patch for any of this before the midterms. Now what?

  • Omiss
    +4

    The fact that a company like this is even allowed to exist is horrifying.

    • AdelleChattre
      +5

      I know, right? FaceBook is a terrible idea. What most disgusts me about it, even more than the fact most Americans check it every day, is that they willingly sign up.

      • iamsanchez
        +5

        I think he (or she) was talking about Cambridge Analytica. FB is crap too, don't get me wrong.

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