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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReminder: Cambridge Analytica selling its data to Heritage Foundation
If they sold to Heritage, where else has the data gone/been sold to?
Trumps Data Firm Is Selling A Top Conservative Think Tank Its Trump Voter Playbook
The Heritage Foundation hasnt always agreed with the president. But it recognizes the cash that his followers can bring.
Lachlan Markay
09.29.17 4:05 PM ET
Three weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, a data company owned by one of his wealthiest supporters began cashing in.
The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nations leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations.
The marrying of the two institutions was made easier by a shared principle. Cambridge Analytica is run by Rebekah Mercer, who with her father provided major cash infusions for Trump and groups supporting him during the 2016 campaign. Mercer is also a board member of the Heritage Foundation, the nations flagship conservative think tank.
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But on November 28, 2016, it hammered out a new agreement to use the massive amounts of data that the firm had collected on Trump supporters in the run-up to the election, with an explicit eye towards raising money from the presidents base.
More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-data-firm-is-selling-a-top-conservative-think-tank-its-trump-voter-playbook
The Heritage Foundation hasnt always agreed with the president. But it recognizes the cash that his followers can bring.
Lachlan Markay
09.29.17 4:05 PM ET
Three weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, a data company owned by one of his wealthiest supporters began cashing in.
The company, Cambridge Analytica, inked a deal with the nations leading conservative think tank, the Heritage Foundation, for the purpose of hitting up Trump voters for donations.
The marrying of the two institutions was made easier by a shared principle. Cambridge Analytica is run by Rebekah Mercer, who with her father provided major cash infusions for Trump and groups supporting him during the 2016 campaign. Mercer is also a board member of the Heritage Foundation, the nations flagship conservative think tank.
... snip
But on November 28, 2016, it hammered out a new agreement to use the massive amounts of data that the firm had collected on Trump supporters in the run-up to the election, with an explicit eye towards raising money from the presidents base.
More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-data-firm-is-selling-a-top-conservative-think-tank-its-trump-voter-playbook
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Reminder: Cambridge Analytica selling its data to Heritage Foundation (Original Post)
MelissaB
Mar 2018
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shraby
(21,946 posts)1. Good question.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)2. Heritage, think Koch, think "Kochtopus." They have
many organizations busily working to subvert our democracy to their service.
Initech
(100,129 posts)3. Mueller has to go after the Heritage Foundation.
What did they know? Who did they sell to? They held a grudge against Hillary and it's pretty evident. And with the Kochs' ill gotten gains, they could have easily funded the backdoor between Russia and the Trump campaign.
THEY. ARE. ALL. IN. ON. IT.