New Cambridge Analytica leak shows out-of-control global election manipulation

[Tanuki]

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

"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.
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"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.” The same machinery, she says, was deployed in other countries that Cambridge Analytica worked in, including, she claims, Britain.
"The documents reveal a much clearer idea of what actually happened in the 2016 US presidential election, which has a huge bearing on what will happen in 2020. It’s the same people involved who we know are building on these same techniques,” she said.

“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 controlbut what this does is lay out what was happening with this one company."....(more)

[ret5hd]

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

[Bradical79]

3. Emerdata and Auspex International

Emerdata was the firm set up to succeed CA, then their director Ahmed Al-Khatib left to set up Auspex International. Not sure if Auspex is its own independent thing, but I read that it will initially focus on Africa and the Middle East.

I think the CA parent company is still around too.

[Bradical79]

2. Not surprised. It's actually kind of easy.

I'd say everything they did is fairly common in companies selling products, and existing political campaigning. They just added more shady/illegal data collection to boost their analytics efforts, focused on voter manipulation and confusing people, and put a lot more dark money behind it all.