Cambridge Analytica execs boast of role in getting Trump elected

[herding cats]

Source: The Guardian

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Senior executives from the firm at the heart of Facebook’s data breach boasted of playing a key role in bringing Donald Trump to power and said they used “unattributable and untrackable” advertising to support their clients in elections, according to an undercover expose.
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In secretly recorded conversations, Cambridge Analytica’s CEO, Alexander Nix, claimed he had met Trump “many times”, while another senior member of staff said the firm was behind the “defeat crooked Hillary” advertising campaign.

“We just put information into the bloodstream of the internet and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again over time to watch it take shape,” said the executive. “And so this stuff infiltrates the online community, but with no branding, so it’s unattributable, untrackable.”

Caught on camera by an undercover team from Channel 4 News, Nix was also dismissive of Democrats on the House intelligence committee, who had questioned him over Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/20/cambridge-analytica-execs-boast-of-role-in-getting-trump-elected

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Dynamite. Hillary Clinton is interviewed. Trump-Bannon-Mercer-CA conduit is explained. . . . nt

[Paladin]

2. "We just put information into the bloodstream of the internet....."

Jesus wept. If you submitted a manuscript for a political thriller novel with that wording in it, You'd be laughed out of every publishing house in the country.

If trump had a single decent trait in his makeup, he'd resign by day's end. Talk about the truth being stranger than fiction.....

[MBS]

4. Perfect summary of our Twilight-Zone political life these days. n/t

[apnu]

3. Nix is out of a job. See link below.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142019191