Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica

[Madam45for2923]

Wow: A closer look at Jared Kushner and the fake news machine behind Trump's campaign & now White House:
https://www.facebook.com/AlexandraChalupa/posts/10158021849465389?pnref=story …

https://twitter.com/AndreaChalupa/status/807021843148369920


Alexandra Chalupa
11 hrs · Washington ·

FUN FACTS in this fluff piece article on Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner and his fast rise to power despite never being engaged in politics until this past year:
#1. Jared Kushner owns a building located at 666 5th Avenue
#2. Chris Christie was fired from transition after Trump win
#3. As a U.S. attorney in 2005, Christie jailed Kushner's father
#4. Kushner's father was jailed on tax evasion charges
#5. Kushner's father was jailed on ELECTION fraud charges, &
#6. Kushner's father was jailed on witness tampering charges.

MISSING FACTS in this fluff piece on Kushner:
#1. Kushner's main project for Trump was Cambridge Analytica
#2. Cambridge Analytica (CA) is only mentioned once in article
#3. Trump campaign paid $5 million for CA
#4. CA top investor is Robert Mercer
#5. Mercer's daughter Rebekah pushed Trump to hire CA
#6. Rebekah Mercer is now one of the top advisors on transition
#7. Steve Bannon is a board member of CA & senior WH advisor
#8. CA was used by the Brexit referendum campaign
#9. CA is a subsidiary of London-based SCL Group
#10. SCL Group is known for military disinformation campaigns
#11. CA uses psychological data on millions of Americans
#12. Most of CA's data is collected without users knowing
#13. Most of CA's data is collected without users' permission
#14. CA has microtargeting info on 220 million Americans
#15. CA claims to have 4K-5K data points on each American
#15. Kushner used CA to target mostly MI, PA, and WI
#16. CA pumped out negative info on Hillary Clinton
#17. This Hillary info CA pushed included "fake news"
#18. CA was used to lower Hillary voter turnout in key states
#19. Trump team created 100K unique digital content pieces a day
#20. Trump campaign used CA instead of a field program
#21. Trump campaign used CA instead of political operatives
#22. Clinton campaign had one of the most powerful data teams
#23. Cruz's digital director said Clinton digital team is best there is
#24. Clinton campaign had a strong field program & GOTV effort
#25. Trump team admits CA doesn't turn out voters
#26. Trump team claims CA was the reason for Trump's win
#27. Without a field program in PA, Trump had 91% GOP turnout
#27. CA may win 2 major contracts to run White House data
#28. Bannon and Mercer are pushing for the CA contracts
#29. CA will be used to promote Trump's policies.

Congress needs to investigate Cambridge Analytica, what information it possesses on Americans, how that information was taken without users knowing or their permission, and how that data was used by the Trump campaign and will be used to manipulative messaging to achieve a specific outcome, especially given CA and its parent company's shady history and track record of propaganda and misinformation wars.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-plan-for-a-comeback-includes-building-a-psychographic-profile-of-every-voter/2016/10/27/9064a706-9611-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html?utm_term=.f1d94554960a

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/features/2015-11-12/is-the-republican-party-s-killer-data-app-for-real-

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[Achilleaze]

1. Congress (R) absolutely needs to investigate this evil matrix

But the the Republican Congress won't even lift an eyelid.

Because they are as dark and corrupt as the evil clowns at 666 5th Ave.

[Cha]

2. Such vile corruption... what is going to stop them?

Thank you for trying, Madam.

Poor Christie prosecuted the wrong crooked felon.

[Madam45for2923]

4. Yes, it's corrupt and scary!

Very bad news.

[Cha]

5. KICK!

[TwilightZone]

3. Nepotism and cronyism

Thanks, Trump voters.

The funny thing - twisted funny, not ha-ha funny - is that some "progressives" refused to vote for Clinton because of family connections (DYNASTY!!!!) and kept insisting cronyism would be involved in her administration, blah, blah.

Yeah, well, ya got your cronyism and nepotism. Congrats!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. I posted an article about this scumbag shady ass company

before the election and got 0 interest from people here. I did get 1 single reply saying that The Gropenfuhrer had wasted the campaign's money on them. I guess he didn't.

[Madam45for2923]

7. I'd like to see it! Yes this threat was ignored/diminished/misunderstood

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512599958

[Lucky Luciano]

11. I commented a few times about not underestimating Cambridge.

Mercer is one of THE top data scientists in the world. If he is invested in Cambridge, then be very afraid. I know Bekah Mercer too. They are not particularly racist - but apparently amoral. Their primary goal is to pay less taxes - tge methods to achieve that don't matter...including the incitement of racist useful idiots.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

14. I'd never heard of these 2 assholes until this year and the sound fucking awful.

For fuck's sake when is it ever enough for these people? At some point they'll have to realize the air, the water, the goddamn eco system don't give 2 shits about how much money you have.

[Lucky Luciano]

16. I went to high school with the Mercer sisters.

They were very smart overachievers. They were middle class at the time because Robert Mercer was still just an IBM research scientist (who invented natural language processing that makes google Translate, etc work). Robert was then recruited to Renaissance after we all went to college. They are now billionaires that have annual Christmas parties that cost around $5 million.

[Roland99]

8. IOKIYAAR

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. RKABBEVTO

[Roland99]

17. Ok...that's a new one to me!

??

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. It makes as much sense as yours.

Cryptic posts can give the poster a great feeling of power and being in-the-know but they are of little help to reader unless the reader is part of the inner circle that uses a particular acronym or other shiboleth.

Yes, I know what yours means, but I had to look it up, even though I've seen it before and looked it up before. So you win. I'm not as cool or as "in" as you are.

[Roland99]

20. Uhhhhh

IOKIYAAR has been used up here for years.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. 220 million Americans are marked by the beast at the 666 building on 5th Ave.

Why aren't the fundies and evangelicals and Alex Jones fans and disgraced Lt Gen Flynn (ret.) up in arms about this?

[annabanana]

12. Holy Crap. I can't believe this is he first time I've heard of CA.

Usually I'm much quicker on the uptake.

[Madam45for2923]

22. Pretty awful & scary stuff!

[Wounded Bear]

15. It's only corruption if somebody else makes money off of it....nt

[BSdetect]

19. They have gained amazing power. Hard to stop them now.

We are at the mercy of greedy shits and dangerous lunatics.

[Madam45for2923]

24. We cannot give up!

[Madam45for2923]

21. KnR!

[Madam45for2923]

23. KnR!