The feds should be focusing on Cambridge in their effort to determine who guided the Russians regarding the online placement of Clinton fake news in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania before the election.
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Cambridge Analytica and the Russians
In reply to Walco
I'm sure they are. That is at the heart of the Muller investigation. Should be a good read if/when all the dots are linked.
In reply to Headley
Commie has been singing the praises of Cambridge Analytical's big data skills since before the election. There are some interesting characters behind that company--names like Mercer and Bannon.
People give Kushner way too much credit for the handling of the data side of Trump's campaign. He is only marginally smarter well Donald "Fredo from the Godfather" Trump Jr. I expect that a few people from Cambridge will be wearing orange jumpsuits by the time all is said and done.
Interesting times ahead.
In reply to Walco
They are not behind. They are in front.
And it's Analytica. Incidentally they have a high success record in the Caribbean through their offshoot SCL.
In reply to Walco
Nothing will happen. This is all bs.
In reply to Commie
I stand corrected regarding the name.
I found this New York Times article a while back that suggests Cambridge is a bullshit organization that makes big promises and delivers little. Your thoughts please.
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In reply to Commie
Never thought you would climb out on a limb for President Loco. A few words of caution from this conservative New York Times columnist:
In reply to Walco
So true.
A man who never laughs, is a man keeping a tight lid on a lot of unmentionables.
Do not dismiss Cambridge Analytics and the other guys from the dark side. There is a lot of gullible material out there to work with.
In reply to Walco
They are
Cambridge executives now concede that the company never used psychographics in the Trump campaign. The technology prominently featured in the firms sales materials and in media reports that cast Cambridge as a master of the dark campaign arts remains unproved, according to former employees and Republicans familiar with the firms work.
*** I think theres a big question about whether we think psychographic profiling even works.
Cambridge is no longer in contention to work for Mr. Trump at the Republican National Committee, a company spokesman confirmed, nor is it working for America First Policies, a new nonprofit formed to help advance the presidents agenda.
In recent months, the value of Cambridges technology has been debated by technology experts and in some media accounts. But Cambridge officials, in recent interviews, defended the companys record during the 2016 election, saying its data analysis helped Mr. Trump energize critical support in the Rust Belt. Mr. Nix said the firm had conducted tens of thousands of polls for Mr. Trump, helping guide his message and identify issues that mattered to voters.
But when asked to name a single race where the firms flagship product had been critical to victory, Mr. Nix declined.
Those profiles, in turn, would allow campaigns to customize advertising, direct-mail slogans and door-knocking scripts, each calibrated to prod the targeted voter toward or away from a candidate.
In reply to Walco
The article is bs.
The seed of the bs is not understanding what Analytica do. So a company massages possibly the greatest political upset since polling came around and you are one of the publications they humiliated and they are not credible ? Methonks the Times are doing a bit of misdirection.
Btw they worked in Yard too.
Nix is a salesman and a pretty snarky one at that but what is behind him is pretty significant. Its scientists and eggheads who use AI to map how social media and communications create a picture of an elections race.
Btw up till recently a former Caribbean PM sat on the board of SCL. Might even still be on it.
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In reply to Commie
From what i understand that PM sat on the Board prior to the MERCERS HAHAHAHA
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In reply to sudden
I had a feeling this thread would smoke you out of hiding Welcome back!
In reply to Commie
Notwithstanding that the Times may be motivated to discredit Cambridge, the article seems balanced with several direct quotations from both sides. What exactly makes it bs in your mind?
Are you saying Cambridge is merely a polling outfit?
In reply to Walco
My friend what's up.
you know when i was watching the elections, i remember one of Trump's people saying that Trump told them that he will win in Penn, Mich, Wiscon etc.. and it struck me as odd
later i was sent some messages where some highly qualified mates were saying that certain voting machines were hacked in states that Trump was told to canvass in specifically.
that is the next part of this saga.
In reply to sudden
Saga is the word indeed. If voting machine hacking occurred, that would explain a lot. That, and the propagation of anti-Clinton fake news in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Googles algorithm had been gamed by extremist sites and it was Jonathan Albright, a professor of communications at Elon University, North Carolina, who helped me get to grips with what I was seeing. He was the first person to map and uncover an entire alt-right news and information ecosystem and he was the one who first introduced me to Cambridge Analytica.
He called the company a central point in the rights propaganda machine, a line I quoted in reference to its work for the Trump election campaign and the referendum Leave campaign. That led to the second article featuring Cambridge Analytica as a central node in the alternative news and information network that I believed Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon, the key Trump aide who is now his chief strategist, were creating. I found evidence suggesting they were on a strategic mission to smash the mainstream media and replace it with one comprising alternative facts, fake history and rightwing propaganda.
He laughed when I told him the frustrating mystery that was AggregateIQ. Find Chris Wylie, he said.
Whos Chris Wylie?
Hes the one who brought data and micro-targeting [individualised political messages] to Cambridge Analytica. And hes from west Canada. Its only because of him that AggregateIQ exist. Theyre his friends. Hes the one who brought them in.
There wasnt just a relationship between Cambridge Analytica and AggregateIQ, Paul told me. They were intimately entwined, key nodes in Robert Mercers distributed empire. The Canadians were our back office. They built our software for us. They held our database. If AggregateIQ is involved then Cambridge Analytica is involved. And if Cambridge Analytica is involved, then Robert Mercer and Steve Bannon are involved. You need to find Chris Wylie.
Maybe Cambridge behind the hacking and privy to Russian meddling that's why they were able to predict a win for Trump and turned it into a business model.
From reading some of the stuff Walco post Maybe "alternate facts" was not a term coined by Kelly Conway but was in the republican lexicon a long long time
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