Bolton early beneficiary of Cambridge Analyticas data
New York Times
Published: March 23, 2018
Updated: March 23, 2018 at 09:21 PM
... Boltons political committee, known as the John Bolton Super PAC, first hired Cambridge in August 2014, months after the political data firm was founded and while it was still harvesting the Facebook data.
In the two years that followed, Boltons super PAC spent nearly $1.2 million primarily for "survey research," which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.
But the contract between the political action committee and Cambridge, a copy of which was obtained by the New York Times, offers more detail on just what Bolton was buying. The contract broadly describes the services to be delivered by Cambridge as "behavioral microtargeting with psychographic messaging."
To do that work, Cambridge used Facebook data, according to the documents and two former employees familiar with the work ...
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