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Eileen Sullivan @esullivannyt 9m9 minutes agoBolton Was Early Beneficiary of Cambridge Analyticas Facebook Data https://nyti.ms/2G1xTu3 @AllMattNYT
___Mr. Boltons political committee, known as The John Bolton Super PAC, first hired Cambridge in August 2014, months after the political data firm was founded and while it was still harvesting the Facebook data.
In the two years that followed, Mr. Boltons super PAC spent nearly $1.2 million primarily for survey research, which is a term that campaigns use for polling, according to campaign finance records.
But the contract between the political action committee and Cambridge, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times, offers more detail on just what Mr. Bolton was buying. The contract broadly describes the services to be delivered by Cambridge as behavioral microtargeting with psychographic messaging.
To do that work, Cambridge used Facebook data, according to the documents and two former employees familiar with the work.
The data and modeling Boltons PAC received was derived from the Facebook data, said Christopher Wylie, a data expert who was part of the team that founded Cambridge Analytica. We definitely told them about how we were doing it. We talked about it in conference calls, in meetings.
read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/us/politics/bolton-cambridge-analyticas-facebook-data.html?smid=tw-share
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Bolton Was Early Beneficiary of Cambridge Analytica's Facebook Data (Original Post)
bigtree
Mar 2018
OP
Let's hope this becomes a viral tainting mechanism to take him down among others
Blue_Adept
Mar 2018
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Blue_Adept
(6,397 posts)1. Let's hope this becomes a viral tainting mechanism to take him down among others
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)3. And maybe some dirty tricks were purchased?
bigtree
(85,986 posts)4. all that money spent
...wasn't just for kicks.
Dirty tricks is CA's MO. We saw that for ourselves in the secret tapes.
bigtree
(85,986 posts)5. Maddow covering this tonight