Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak "shows global manipulation is out of control"

[muriel_volestrangler]

An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles.

More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” is set to be released over the next months.

It comes as Christopher Steele, the ex-head of MI6’s Russia desk and the intelligence expert behind the so-called “Steele dossier” into Trump’s relationship with Russia, said that while the company had closed down, the failure to properly punish bad actors meant that the prospects for manipulation of the US election this year were even worse.

The release of documents began on New Year’s Day on an anonymous Twitter account, @HindsightFiles, with links to material on elections in Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil. The documents were revealed to have come from Brittany Kaiser, an ex-Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower, and to be the same ones subpoeaned by Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jan/04/cambridge-analytica-data-leak-global-election-manipulation

[Roland99]

1. Power corrupts

[ret5hd]

2. Didn't "collapse"...merely renamed.

[stillcool]

3. that's a scary one...

the known, un-knowns, everyone knows about, but no one wants to talk about. It's a big secret?

“There are emails between these major Trump donors discussing ways of obscuring the source of their donations through a series of different financial vehicles. These documents expose the entire dark money machinery behind US politics.

“There’s evidence of really quite disturbing experiments on American voters, manipulating them with fear-based messaging, targeting the most vulnerable, that seems to be continuing. This is an entire global industry that’s out of control but what this does is lay out what was happening with this one company.

[JonLP24]

4. K&R

[liberalla]

5. Bookmarking to read later. K & R

Thanks.

[Hortensis]

6. Great, thanks, I'll be reading about this. Note, the "collapsed"

is likely incorrect. I read long ago that its parent company, the slimy SCL Group, folded CA's tents and had its people steal off into the desert and reappear elsewhere after it was exposed. So it's very nice to hear that not all CA's documentation went poof! after all.

[Crash2Parties]

7. "Cambridge" went defunct to block subpoenas for paper trails. The company lives on.

It was a ruse to stop investigations cold in their tracks. No company, no paper trail. No records. Nobody to subpoena.

They are now known as Emerdata. We'll find out what they've been up to after the elections.

My guess is they're doing exactly same as before: embedding employees with Facebook in Trump's campaign, data sifting between multiple sources to supply Red state Crosscheck-style voter block lists, etc., etc...

[elleng]

8. Here too:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016245245

[Pepsidog]

9. Mercers need to be held to account