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rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
Wed Jul 12, 2017, 11:13 PM Jul 2017

Trump campaign data gathering was "under the guidance of Jared Kushner"

Anything data related in all of this...all roads lead to Kushner. He knows it. Trump's lawyers
have to know it. He was the link that brought in Project Alamo. Cambridge Analytica teamed with Project Alamo.
Project Alamo involvement reportedly got ramped up in June 2016. Pascale posted a picture of himself with Trump at Trump Tower on June 8 2016 on his Twitter account. Huh...one day before the Trump, Jr/Russia meeting. Busy month...data wise.



https://medium.com/startup-grind/how-the-trump-campaign-built-an-identity-database-and-used-facebook-ads-to-win-the-election-4ff7d24269ac


Following Trump’s official nomination as the Republican Party presidential candidate in July 2016, Parscale was tasked with building and scaling the campaign’s digital targeting capabilities. One main supplier of Trump’s data was the Republican National Committee. (RNC Chairman Reince Preibus famously invested more than $100 million dollars into the party’s data and infrastructure capabilities since Mitt Romney’s 2012 loss.)

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Under the guidance of Jared Kushner, a senior campaign advisor and son-in-law of President-Elect Trump, Parscale quietly began building his own list of Trump supporters. Trump’s revolutionary database, named Project Alamo, contains the identities of 220 million people in the United States, and approximately 4,000 to 5,000 individual data points about the online and offline life of each person. Funded entirely by the Trump campaign, this database is owned by Trump and continues to exist.



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Trump campaign data gathering was "under the guidance of Jared Kushner" (Original Post) rainbow4321 Jul 2017 OP
K&R Guy Whitey Corngood Jul 2017 #1
K&R Solly Mack Jul 2017 #2
Kushner and Mercer? Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #3
Wow YCHDT Jul 2017 #4
Yup...Mercers, Cambridge Analytica, Parscale, Project Alamo... rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #5
Thank you, Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #6
Their parent company has a US State Dept contract rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #7
When someone can Pirate a E-mail and Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #8
Damn...now imagine Trump/Russia doing this via our State Dept. rainbow4321 Jul 2017 #9
My take is,we should have seen this coming . Wellstone ruled Jul 2017 #10

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
5. Yup...Mercers, Cambridge Analytica, Parscale, Project Alamo...
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:15 AM
Jul 2017

Parscale gave a lot of interviews post election....and he was bringing Kushner name up ALL the time..crediting Kushner for all things data. The one interivew that Kushner gave about the data end of it all was for Forbes magazine..and while he talked about Project Alamo, he left out any mention of Cambridge Analytica involvement.
You have to wonder...with all of the stories about how Trump would make everyone and their dog sign non-disclosure agreements in his life...why did he not make the data department (aka Parscale and everyone else with Project Alamo) sign a non disclosure? Cuz Parscale was all over the place talking about how Project Alamo was about voter influence, data gathering, and voter suppression after the election was over.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go

As Kushner, who shares his father-in-law’s disdain for political professionals, became more active in the campaign’s operations, Parscale emerged from among dozens of vendors into a unique role. “Once Jared found Brad,” says a campaign official, “we were able to avoid building a big team and ran a lot of our back end through his office in San Antonio.”

After Trump won the Indiana primary, vanquishing his remaining rivals, Parscale had to integrate his do-it-yourself operation with two established players who would jostle for primacy as supplier of Trump’s data. The first was Cambridge Analytica, on whose board Bannon sits. Among its investors is the hedge fund titan Robert Mercer and his daughter, Rebekah, who were about to become some of the largest donors to the Trump cause. Locations for the candidate’s rallies, long the centerpiece of his media-centric candidacy, are guided by a Cambridge Analytica ranking of the places in a state with the largest clusters of persuadable voters. The other was the Republican National Committee, to which Trump relinquished control over many of its tactical decisions. “

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In June, Parscale granted his first national interview, to Wired, to preemptively explain why the Federal Election Commission was about to report that an unknown agency in San Antonio was the Trump campaign’s largest vendor. In August, Giles-Parscale handled $9 million in business from Trump’s campaign; two months later, the company’s total haul had cleared $50 million, most of it money passing through to online ad networks at little markup. Parscale was delivering his services at such a discount that Kushner even worried that the agency’s efforts might have to be classified as an in-kind contribution. “Jared’s a big part of what gave me my power and ability to do what I’ve been doing,” says Parscale, who sees himself as more than just a staffer. “Because you know what I was willing to do? I was willing to do it like family.”

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
6. Thank you,
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:45 AM
Jul 2017

now I remember where I saw this in detail. Do remember these same folks mentioned the Bexit Deal also. Mercer's Algorithm is one nasty piece of Math. First saw it displayed on a White Board at a Stock Trading Company I once called on. This thing is scale-able to many applications as per the office Techie.

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
7. Their parent company has a US State Dept contract
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 12:59 AM
Jul 2017

Which doesn't seem like a good thing...now other countries' citizens can be getting THEIR personal info scooped up and kept in a data base...just like was done to US citizens by Cambridge Analytica. Gee, wonder who pulled strings to get them THAT CONTRACT? Notice the article brings up Flynn's name. Happened on his short watch, apparently. You have to wonder will any world wide data collected make it's way to Putin's inbox if he decides to target a country/leader. All he needs to do is give Trump a call and have the State Dept activate this collection program.

https://medium.com/textifire/scl-group-joins-the-us-state-dept-ad5cac8155ff

SCL Group, the shadowy psychological marketing data conglomerate involved in both the Donald Trump and Brexit victories, has recently been awarded a defense contract with the US State Department’s newest propaganda unit, aided by the recent lobbying and advisement of the disgraced former National Security Adviser and now-registered foreign agent Michael Flynn.

Reams of information abound across the internet if you require a primer on the involvement of SCL Group subsidiary Cambridge Analytica as part of Steve Bannon errr Donald Trump’s presidential campaign powerhouse data team (alongside Brad Parscale, Gary Coby, and the RNC tech squad) and Brexit’s Leave media operations teams.

In a nutshell, things like your credit report, voting record & address, purchasing habits, harvested internet interactions, and stolen social media histories are compiled into highly personalized, actionable demographic & psychometric profiles detailing how your specific brain works, which become very useful to advertisers or electioneers should they desire to guide your opinion or intent.
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
8. When someone can Pirate a E-mail and
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 01:18 AM
Jul 2017

completely alter the message and replace it with in a sequence,damn,that is one powerful friggin Algo. The day before DU was blown up,my Bernie link went nuts. Got dozens of anti Hillary stories,had to kill the link and that stopped the fake news stories. Next day someone whacked this sight.

rainbow4321

(9,974 posts)
9. Damn...now imagine Trump/Russia doing this via our State Dept.
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 01:30 AM
Jul 2017

We'll have entire countries' social media and inboxes being pumped full of whatever Putin wants..whatever spin that he wants to out there globally. We will have not a single ally left in the world. And Trump will do whatever he is told to do/not do. It probably will help that he is leaving the State Dept mostly unmanned. Russia will be remotely running it.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
10. My take is,we should have seen this coming .
Thu Jul 13, 2017, 01:46 AM
Jul 2017

Tech Engineers were talking about this scenario playing out years ago. And now it is live in real time.

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