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There is video at the link ..............
CNN: Trump is trying to distance himself from Cambridge Analytica after campaign bragged about using them during 2016 election
Joshua Green: "They had a team of Cambridge data scientists embedded in the Trump headquarters"
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2017/10/25/cnn-trump-trying-distance-himself-cambridge-analytica-after-campaign-bragged-about-using-them-during/218331
ANDERSON COOPER (HOST): Josh you were reporting inside of the data operation in the home stretch of the Trump campaign. I just read an article you today wrote called Inside the Trump Bunker With 12 Days To Go. You heard what they said about relying on the RNC there, is that true?
JOSHUA GREEN: No, its almost laughably false and we were invited down in the final month of the campaign, Sasha Eisenberg, my colleague and I in order for them to show off what it was they were doing. The idea at the time publicly was that the data operation at the Trump campaign was really just Trump and his twitter feed. And they wanted to show off no, in fact, they had three different sources of polling, one of them was Cambridge Analytica. And not only that, they had a team of Cambridge data scientists embedded in the Trump headquarters in San Diego who were doing very sophisticated modeling work that helped to inform where the campaign was going to send Donald Trump. And so in the weeks right before the election when Trump started visiting states like Michigan and Wisconsin that seemed outwardly bizarre, nobody thought he was going to win those states. He was there because the Cambridge models told him thats where you can pick up voters.
COOPER: So in that statement today they were saying we only relied on the RNC and any other suggestion is just false. Youre saying thats just false.
GREEN: Im saying thats wrong. They showed off their wares, they had a Cambridge tool called the Battleground Optimizer Path to Victory that literally it would feed in poll numbers and it would spit out the likeliest path for Trump to get to 270 electoral votes and they would send Trump to those states based on what the model told us.
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Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)http://ihavenotv.com/the-persuasion-machine-secrets-of-silicon-valley (USA)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b091zhtk/secrets-of-silicon-valley-series-1-2-the-persuasion-machine (UK)
In an online BBC video, Theresa Hong, the Donald Trump campaigns Digital Content Director, has made a number of startling confessions that she seems to think were bragging points. Shes revealed that Cambridge Analytica, the company suspected of having used voter data stolen by the Russian government to plot its online marketing strategy on Trumps behalf, ran its operations out of the same offices where the Trump campaign itself was plotting its paid Facebook ad strategy. But the truly shocking revelation is who else she admits was in the building, which Trumps people called Project Alamo.
The BBC interviewer asks Hong, What were Facebook and Google and YouTube people actually doing here? Why were they here? She responds by saying They were helping us, you know. They were basically our hands-on partners as far as being able to utilize the platform as effectively as possible. Shen then bragged When youre pumping in millions and millions of dollars to these social platforms, youre going to get white glove treatment. So they would send people, you know, representatives to the Project Alamo to ensure that all our needs were being met. Watch the shocking BBC video below
http://www.palmerreport.com/politics/facebook-employees-trump-office/4784/
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)I wrote here in DU's old forum that this was a Russian connected firm. I thought at the time they were based out of England. But I kept saying this company had something to do with manipulating the election and Russian spies.
Justice
(7,188 posts)Green says CA had embedded people at Brad's offices.
Information I saw said Brad's company paid much less than $20 million before August, so vast bulk of that money was spent August to November when embedded people from CA, FB, Google, Twitter.
Botany
(70,567 posts)Trump's HQ had a C.A. computer in it hooked up to Alfa bank in the Ukraine
Vinca
(50,302 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)Here is my post from last night - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029752082
Here is Green's tweet from yesterday with a link to his pre-election Bloomberg article -
@JoshuaGreen
"This is pure nonsense. CA had a whole team at Trump campaign, @sissenberg + I embedded with them for this @BW piece:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go
Here is CA's frigging press release - CA also took credit for the win based on the use of CA data - said it was "instrumental"
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cambridge-analytica-congratulates-president-elect-donald-trump-and-vice-president-elect-mike-pence-300359987.html (better copy this before they take it down)
Here is fleabiscuit's post on my OP last night:
ROBERT MERCER MONEY LAUNDERER FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN
"...MERCER invested in data science firm CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA. MERCER insisted TRUMP campaign hire CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA to design its social media strategy. Through CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA and its owner Vincent TCHENGUIZ, MERCER is connected to PUTIN protégé Dmitry FIRTASH and Russian Intelligence Services (RIS). (3, 4)..."
https://t.co/XPOWznU899
hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)Justice
(7,188 posts)https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/26/cambridge-analytica-used-data-from-facebook-and-politico-to-help-trump?CMP=share_btn_tw
"Cambridge Analytica used its own database and voter information collected from Facebook and news publishers in its effort to help elect Donald Trump, despite a claim by a top campaign official who has downplayed the companys role in the election."
Keep everything in same thread so it doesn't get lost in GD mess of a forum.
"Speaking at a conference in Germany, Molly Schweickert, the head of digital at Cambridge Analytica, said that Cambridge Analytica models, which melded the companys own massive database and new voter surveys, were instrumental in day-to-day campaign decisions, including in helping determine Trumps travel schedule."
CA started working with the Trump campaign in June 2016.