Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters

[DonViejo]

Source: Reuters



MARCH 27, 2018 / 6:56 AM / UPDATED AN HOUR AGO

LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

AggregateIQ did not immediately respond to request for comment on the remarks by Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower formerly of British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica. Wylie has previously disclosed how users’ data from Facebook was used by Cambridge Analytica to help elect U.S. President Donald Trump.

Ripon, the town in which the Republican Party was founded in 1854, was the name given to a tool that let a campaign manage its voter database, target specific voters, conduct canvassing, manage fundraising and carry out surveys.

“There’s now tangible proof in the public domain that AIQ actually built Ripon, which is the software that utilised the algorithms from the Facebook data,” Wylie told the British Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.


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[Silver1]

1. Judge, Jury and Executioner

So AggregateIQ is the brains, Facebook is the enabler, Cambridge Analytica is the executioner. And the GOP is the judge and jury.

They have zero respect for us. All con artists.

[magicarpet]

2. Each succeeding step is bolder and more criminal...

than the scheme just before. They are taking the art of cheating to extremes because they know that their policies are shit and they must cheat harder to keep their death grip on power.

[poboy2]

3. r'd