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hlthe2b

(102,283 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 12:56 PM Jun 2018

AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers

Source: Associated Press via Sacramento Bee

A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users' private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.

The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with Data Propria, a new company specializing in voter and consumer targeting work similar to Cambridge Analytica's efforts before its collapse. The company's former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads the new firm, which also includes Cambridge Analytica's former chief data scientist.

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The AP learned of Data Propria's role in Trump's re-election effort as a result of conversations held with political contacts and prospective clients in recent weeks by Oczkowski. In one such conversation, which took place in a public place and was overheard by two AP reporters, Oczkowski said he and and Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, were "doing the president's work for 2020."

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article213254204.html#storylink=cpy

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/latest-news/article213254204.html

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AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers (Original Post) hlthe2b Jun 2018 OP
in steps the Putin folks Backwoodsrider Jun 2018 #1
2020 will be like 2016, all the same players, same motive, procon Jun 2018 #2
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jun 2018 #3
I'm really surprised that no reporters have reminded about Blackwater. calimary Jun 2018 #4
Data Impropria lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #6
yeh Data Propria? wtf is that? 0rganism Jun 2018 #8
Trump is so cute - he thinks he'll still be around in 2020. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #5
kick hlthe2b Jun 2018 #7
This should be illegal. Freaking crooks! backtoblue Jun 2018 #9
Data Propria as in Data aPROPRIAted truthisfreedom Jun 2018 #10

procon

(15,805 posts)
2. 2020 will be like 2016, all the same players, same motive,
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 01:07 PM
Jun 2018

but without any fears of being stopped. nt

calimary

(81,298 posts)
4. I'm really surprised that no reporters have reminded about Blackwater.
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 01:34 PM
Jun 2018

DON'T BE FOOLED!!!

Eric Prince's dastardly Blackwater soldier-of-fortune company shuttered. So that's it, right? We can all go home and congratulate ourselves on slaying the monster and it's gone and will admit it's been vanquished and won't come back. Right?

WRONG!!!!!! All Eric Prince did was rename Blackwater and carry on as before. He could technically say Blackwater was no more. Because it's been renamed, and you call it something else now, which means you don't have to say "Blackwater" anymore. Its name changed to Xe. For awhile. I think by now even Xe isn't its name anymore - there's been a third name-change. And maybe a fourth, or even a fifth, or who knows how many by now? But its purpose and its mission remains the same, and most of its same original operatives are still in place, too.

Cambridge Analytica didn't go anywhere. Don't believe for a single instant that it's over with that one, simply because reports claim that the Cambridge Analytica entity is no more. That's NOT the end of the story by ANY means. They're still at it. It hasn't ceased to exist. It just got a change of address and clothes, and maybe hair color. They're calling it "Data Propria" now, 'eh? Wonder what it'll be called a few weeks or months from now?

0rganism

(23,955 posts)
8. yeh Data Propria? wtf is that?
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 03:49 PM
Jun 2018

how about Data Prostate?
Data Dingleberries?
Penitentiary Analytica?
Data Dictatoria?

we shouldn't laugh - these fuckwits are trying to kill us all

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