Cambridge Analytica CEO caught bragging about influencing elections

[sarahb 17,187]

The CEO of the British data firm Cambridge Analytica was filmed saying that his firm used bribes and sex workers to trap politicians in compromising situations, an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News in London reported Monday.

Channel 4 reports that over a four-month undercover investigation, it discovered that Cambridge Analytica has secretly worked to influence more than 200 elections all over the world, sometimes using sub-contractors or a web of secretive front companies.

Alexander Nix, the company's chief executive, in one exchange talks about sending "some girls around to the candidate's house" in order to dig up dirt on political opponents.

He also talks of putting information "into the bloodstream of the internet" and watching to grow. 

Nix did not appear to know he was being filmed when he made the statements at what Channel 4 said were a series of hotel meetings. The news organization said its reporter posed as the representative of a client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.

In another exchange, he speaks of how "we'll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the internet.”

The Trump campaign used Cambridge Analytica in the 2016 presidential contest. It also had obtained a $15 million investment from wealthy GOP donor Robert Mercer.

The company is under new scrutiny after a report Saturday in The New York Times that said it had harvested private information of more than 50 million people through Facebook, and then attempted to use that information to help Trump by influencing voter behavior. It is not clear the efforts worked.

Facebook suspended the firm on Friday over violating its privacy policies

https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/cambridge-analyticas-ceo-was-caught-by-channel-4-offering-to-meddle-in-elections-using-sex-workers-and-bribes.html

 

[scallywally 626]

Apparently the second part of the channel 4 news report tonight is going to be even more explosive. 

[sarahb 17,187]

1 minute ago, scallywally said:

Apparently the second part of the channel 4 news report tonight is going to be even more explosive. 

Yeah I think it's supposed to focus on the US election?

[scallywally 626]

10 minutes ago, sarahb said:

Yeah I think it's supposed to focus on the US election?

Yeah they dish the dirt tonight. I just cant get my head around how he's still there?? Its so confusing, he seems to be hateful, doing everything wrong, unhinged, his family are crooks, conned the election. Hes up for rape charges, beat his ex wife up, cheated on his new wife and HE'S STILL THERE!?! Hes thrown toilet rolls at starving people, left families to die, threatened nuclear war, being racist, picking on disabled peopled, iscredited nice people, has lied non stop, ****ed up the economy and world wide partnerships, ignores shootings and disasters and GOES GOLFING!!

Its mind baffling so much it makes me question my sanity. 

I dont condone violence whatsoever but does anybody else think everybody else is sitting back ignoring it waiting for him to be shot? I wouldnt like that, he should go to jail but I think people are. 

 

[Andrew Warhola 12,992]

Slightly off topic but I just remembered that last year I read an article about Cambridge Analytica and it mentioned Gaga.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mg9vvn/how-our-likes-helped-trump-win

Spoiler

"Remarkably reliable deductions could be drawn from simple online actions. For example, men who "liked" the cosmetics brand MAC were slightly more likely to be gay; one of the best indicators for heterosexuality was "liking" Wu-Tang Clan. Followers of Lady Gaga were most probably extroverts, while those who "liked" philosophy tended to be introverts. While each piece of such information is too weak to produce a reliable prediction, when tens, hundreds, or thousands of individual data points are combined, the resulting predictions become really accurate."

And ever since they assumed I'm an extrovert based on the fact that I like Gaga, I feel immune to their algorithm.

[TimisaMonster 31,073]

Even more evidence of rigged elections and now heads are tuning to Trump and how the heck was it possible HE of all candidates became president...

[FATCAT 60,888]

1 minute ago, TimisaMonster said:

Even more evidence of rigged elections and now heads are tuning to Trump and how the heck was it possible HE of all candidates became president...

Cambridge was hired by the Ted Cruz Campaign originally, but yea, this shady **** is deep in Republican pockets.

[FATCAT 60,888]

1 hour ago, scallywally said:

Its mind baffling so much it makes me question my sanity. 

Republicans hold the reigns of power, so until the 2018 mid-terms, or a time when Republicans grow a spine, we'll have to deal with Trump. Not to mention, a sense of numbness has taken over the republican voters, so unless a blue wave strikes in the fall, we'll be stuck with him for 8 years.

[bionic 50,111]

The establishment will let this slide, MMW.

[Applause 650]

This sounds like a movie. 

[Florian 20,017]

Is that how @FATCAT won the GGD élection ?

[imnotyourbabe10 6,120]

This is why we've gotta break the two party binary and ruffle up the establishment.  They don't care!

Keep taking back the public spaces via protest, ya'll! I'm concerned everyone is getting woke but is rather complaisant with what is expected of us in society.  Keep walking out of school; hell, walk out of work!  

[FATCAT 60,888]

1 hour ago, Florian said:

Is that how @FATCAT won the GGD élection ?

Admin gave me the keys to all the data, and I categorized every GGD user as either a bottom, a top, verse, or a liar. 

From there, it was just a blame game, and I guess it struck the nerve we target.

[PartySick 172,484]

3 hours ago, scallywally said:

I dont condone violence whatsoever but does anybody else think everybody else is sitting back ignoring it waiting for him to be shot? I wouldnt like that, he should go to jail but I think people are. 

The only reason, and I mean the only reason I don't wish any harm on that p.o.s. is 'cause I know he'd become a martyr for the group of degenerates that are blindly loyal to him.

Hopefully soon he'll find himself in the stony lonesome