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https://qz.com/1233579/facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-worked-side-by-side-at-a-trump-campaign-office-in-san-antonio/
In fact, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica worked side-by-side for the 2016 Donald Trump campaign at its digital operation in San Antonio, Texasa year after the tech giant discovered that Cambridge Analytica had access to the Facebook users data in violation of the companys policies. In a 2017 BBC report, Therese Wong, a digital guru for the Trump campaign walks journalist Jamie Bartlett through the San Antonio office, showing him the room out of which Cambridge Analytica operatedthe brain of the operation, she says. Nearby were desks where Facebook employees sat embedded with the Trump campaign.
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-40852227/the-digital-guru-who-helped-donald-trump-to-the-presidency
A key insider from the Trump campaign's digital operation - Theresa Wong - unravels for the first time the role played by social media and Facebook's in getting Trump into the White House.
Jamie Bartlett learns how Facebook's vast power to persuade was first built for advertisers, combining data about our internet use and psychological insights into how we think.
Pachamama
(16,875 posts)Pachamama
(16,875 posts)Now thanks to the Mueller investigation and journalists in UK exposing Cambridge Analytica, we are slowing getting the truth on this Project....
More sure to follow soon....
poboy2
(2,078 posts)Sancho
(9,065 posts)The FB "collusion" was there all along...
poboy2
(2,078 posts)For a media always looking for eyes and clicks, sensational fake stories are created, then spread as false sense of interest builds.
"Into the bloodstream". Then. the crazy talk gets a force multiplier effect.
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)That woman is so giddy about deceiving people..."Trump wouldn't have gotten elected without us. He invested all of his campaign money with this operation".
kentuck
(110,950 posts)Very interesting.
Sancho
(9,065 posts)They seem all over the place...but Mueller probably now knows how they connected to tRump.
Here's one detail:
https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/16/texas-grassroots-group-communicated-russians-indicted-election-meddlin/
The 37-page document details numerous Russian operations across the United States, especially in swing states like Florida. But Texas is mentioned several times.
It identifies neither the Texas group the Russians are alleged to have communicated with nor the person affiliated with the group. But it says the alleged conspirators created a fake American named "Matt Skiber" to communicate through. And, the indictment says, the Russians "learned from the real U.S. person that they should focus their activities on 'purple states like Colorado, Virginia & Florida.'"
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)There was a Russian Facebook page called, "Heart of Texas". But I don't think it was created in Texas.
Brad Parscale (Project Alamo and Trump's 2020 campaign manager) is from San Antonio. He has his own firm, but has connections to Cambridge Analytica which he is downplaying.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Alamo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Parscale
poboy2
(2,078 posts)kentuck
(110,950 posts)He is deep into the scandal.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)Parscale got his voter data from CA.
Paladin
(28,204 posts)Parscale is central to it all.