Trump's Data Team: We use the same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler"

[CousinIT]

The London-based SCL Group is the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, which helped the Trump campaign craft targeted messages to voters. Cambridge Analytica claims it can predict how people will vote by combining personality surveys and thousands of pieces of data it has on every American adult. The firm told the Washington Post it offered recommendations on where to hold rallies and where volunteers should knock on doors, for example. The company also helped develop messaging for a group pushing to leave the European Union during the Brexit referendum last year. It is reportedly in talks with the administration to work on policy-related communications.

Cambridge Analytica has deep ties to the Trump administration. Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon, served on the company’s board. The company is largely owned by the Mercer family, one of Trump’s biggest donors. Rebekah Mercer, played a crucial role picking cabinet nominees, Politico reported.

It is not clear exactly what role Cambridge Analytica could play in the White House. Neither responded to multiple requests for comment. Like Cambridge Analytica, its parent company, SCL Group, touts its ability to identify psychological traits in large groups of people and uses that data to target messages to specific audiences.

Here’s how the company’s CEO, Nigel Oakes, described his work to a trade journal in 1992: “We use the same techniques as Aristotle and Hitler. … We appeal to people on an emotional level to get them to agree on a functional level.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/kendalltaggart/company-tied-to-trump-campaign-once-pushed-voter-suppression

[milestogo]

1. Aristotle and Hitler?

Aristotle the philosopher or Ari Onassis?

[Jacob Boehme]

2. Bromance!

[bdamomma]

3. I should print that picture out and send to my

Senators. Hey I think I will. Is this picture authentic?

[LeftInTX]

4. I checked and found this:

[CousinIT]

8. Yea I wasn't sure about the photo. It's an easily photoshopped one.

[Jacob Boehme]

5. Caveat emptor.... I found it on the interwebs!

[Denzil_DC]

6. Well, either it's a photoshop,

or this one is:



(Google image search is cool.)

[bdamomma]

7. is his hand burning??

was his hand on the Bible also at the swearing in?

wow so that first picture is photo-shopped?

[Zo Zig]

9. CA

Has deep ties to the russians. Mercer doesn't own it.

[CousinIT]

10. Really? Do you have further info or a link?

That's very interesting if it's true.

[Zo Zig]

11. Yes

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/211152/trump-data-analytics-russian-access

[CousinIT]

12. Thanks!

I should send that to whoever wrote the article in the OP. Seems they left that part out for some reason.

[Zo Zig]

14. Add

The fact that Alpha bank is linked to both CA and the server in Trump tower.

[CousinIT]

15. I read that earlier and can't find where I saw it!

Seems the FBI/CIA would have pieced all this together by now in which case WTF is Trump doing in the Oval Office?!!

[dalton99a]

13. +1

[Zo Zig]

16. See

The Chess with Put in post.