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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCambridge Analytica consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-trumps-election-consultants-filmed-saying-they-use-bribes-and-sex-workers-to-entrap-politicians-investigationSenior executives at Cambridge Analytica the data company that credits itself with Donald Trumps presidential victory have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers.
In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the companys chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world. This includes operating through a web of shadowy front companies, or by using sub-contractors.
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could send some girls around to the candidates house, adding that Ukrainian girls are very beautiful, I find that works very well.
In another he said: Well offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, well have the whole thing recorded, well blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.
Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.
The admissions were filmed at a series of meetings at London hotels over four months, between November 2017 and January 2018. An undercover reporter for Channel 4 News posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.
Mr Nix told our reporter: were used to operating through different vehicles, in the shadows, and I look forward to building a very long-term and secretive relationship with you.
Along with Mr Nix, the meetings also included Mark Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global, and the companys chief data officer, Dr Alex Tayler.
Mr Turnbull described how, having obtained damaging material on opponents, Cambridge Analytica can discreetly push it onto social media and the internet.
He said: we just put information into the bloodstream of the internet, and then, and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again like a remote control. It has to happen without anyone thinking, thats propaganda, because the moment you think thats propaganda, the next question is, whos put that out?.
Mr Nix also said: Many of our clients dont want to be seen to be working with a foreign company so often we set up, if we are working then we can set up fake IDs and websites, we can be students doing research projects attached to a university, we can be tourists, theres so many options we can look at. I have lots of experience in this.
In the meetings, the executives boasted that Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) had worked in more than two hundred elections across the world, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India and Argentina.
The company is at the centre of a scandal over its role in the harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles.
Chief executive Mr Nix has also been accused of misleading a parliamentary select committee, which is now asking him to provide further information. He has denied the allegations.
Tonight, a Cambridge Analytica spokesman said: We entirely refute any allegation that Cambridge Analytica or any of its affiliates use entrapment, bribes, or so-called honey-traps for any purpose whatsoever We routinely undertake conversations with prospective clients to try to tease out any unethical or illegal intentions
They said: Cambridge Analytica does not use untrue material for any purpose.
And they insisted that opposition research and intelligence gathering, the use of subcontractors and working discreetly with clients are all common practice and legitimate.
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They are going down....UK will pull this apart.
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Cambridge Analytica consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians (Original Post)
sunonmars
Mar 2018
OP
just watched it in the UK, the whole company should be arrested, 3rd part on the US tomorrow.
sunonmars
Mar 2018
#2
This is the equivalent of being spy burned, they are dead in the business after this.
sunonmars
Mar 2018
#7
dalton99a
(81,404 posts)1. Pretty sure they've destroyed the FB data
They sound like honest good people
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)2. just watched it in the UK, the whole company should be arrested, 3rd part on the US tomorrow.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)3. nothing stays destroyed these days.
IluvPitties
(3,181 posts)4. So, who has been blackmailed by these bastards?
malaise
(268,711 posts)6. Everyone keeping secrets or refusing to
act
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)9. Cyber security is dead, you cannot keep anything secret.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)5. There will be uk arrest warrants going out after this.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)7. This is the equivalent of being spy burned, they are dead in the business after this.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)8. They are finished,they are done,no one is going to touch them. This company is burned to the ground