Reminder that the State Department's Global Engagement Center has Cambridge Analytica on a contract.

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Your regular reminder that the State Department's Global Engagement Center has Cambridge Analytica on a contract. The GEC is the government to office charged with fighting disinformation.

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Trump-Linked Data Firm Removes State Dept., NATO Logos After NBC Questions

The company that created Cambridge Analytica, the data analytics operation that helped Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election, has removed the U.S. State Department logo and the NATO logo from its website after inquiries from NBC News.

The website of SCL Group, a private British behavioral research company, featured the State and NATO logos and used language touting their "approval" of the company's "methodology" until last week.

The company was awarded State Department contracts this year to help fight ISIS recruitment and has taught behavioral change science at a NATO-affiliated training program.

"NATO as an organization does not approve methodologies per se," said a NATO spokesman.

More: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-linked-data-firm-removes-state-dept-nato-logos-after-n788691

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people didn't know this.