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| − | '''Cambridge Analytica''' is a privately held big [[data mining]] company | + | '''Cambridge Analytica''' is a privately held big [[data mining]] company which is affiliated with the [[SCL Group]] and works for commercial customers as well as those in the "government space" and for the military. |
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| + | Cambridge Analytica is accused of secretly harvesting up to 50 million ''[[Facebook]]'' users’ personal data to better identify individuals who could be targeted and influenced by specific political ad campaigns. | ||
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| + | The firm, which boasts it has influenced 200 political campaigns worldwide, was hired by [[Donald Trump]]’s 2016 presidential campaign, but has denied that data acquired through ''Facebook'' was used to assist his efforts to win the election.<ref>''[https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/cambridge-analyticas-mark-turnbull-advised-foreign-office-on-data-lessons-from-trump-presidential-campaign-wilton-park_uk_5ab29563e4b008c9e5f39523 "Cambridge Analytica Chief Advised Foreign Office On Trump's Presidential Campaign Data Tactics"]''</ref> | ||
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==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||
| − | Cambridge Analytica had [[Steve Bannon]] on its board of directors.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon</ref> The CEO was [[Alexander Nix]]. | + | Cambridge Analytica ([[CA]]) had [[Steve Bannon]] on its board of directors.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon</ref> The CEO was [[Alexander Nix]]. [[Mark Turnbull]], who joined Alexander Nix at the secretly filmed meetings, heads up [[SCL|SCL Elections]] as well as Cambridge Analytica Political Global. Turnbull previously spent 18 years at [[Bell Pottinger]], heading up the [[Pentagon]]-funded PR drive in occupied [[Iraq]] which included the production of fake [[al-Qaeda]] videos.<ref>''[http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/03/20/scl-a-very-british-coup/ "SCL – a Very British Coup"]''</ref> |
==Activities== | ==Activities== | ||
| − | [[Alexander Nix]], CEO | + | [[Alexander Nix]], former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, claimed to have "already helped supercharge leave.eu". A member of their staff was on the board of [[Leave.Eu]]. Their spending returns made no mention of leave.eu and they denied doing professional work for the campaign, although this remained contested as of March 2017.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/nigel-oakes-cambridge-analytica-what-role-brexit-trump</ref><ref>https://www.markpack.org.uk/148592/electoral-commission-cambridge-analytica/</ref> |
===Brexit=== | ===Brexit=== | ||
Revision as of 11:26, 23 March 2018
 Cambridge Analytica  (Big data miner)      | |
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| Formation | 31 December 2013 |
| Founder | •  Steve Bannon• Robert Mercer |
| Headquarters | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Exposed by | Carole Cadwalladr |
| A big data mining company | |
Cambridge Analytica is a privately held big data mining company which is affiliated with the SCL Group and works for commercial customers as well as those in the "government space" and for the military.
Cambridge Analytica is accused of secretly harvesting up to 50 million Facebook users’ personal data to better identify individuals who could be targeted and influenced by specific political ad campaigns.
The firm, which boasts it has influenced 200 political campaigns worldwide, was hired by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, but has denied that data acquired through Facebook was used to assist his efforts to win the election.[1]
| A March 2018 video by the UK's Channel 4, including hidden camera footage of Cambridge Analytica. |
Contents
Personnel
Cambridge Analytica (CA) had Steve Bannon on its board of directors.[2] The CEO was Alexander Nix. Mark Turnbull, who joined Alexander Nix at the secretly filmed meetings, heads up SCL Elections as well as Cambridge Analytica Political Global. Turnbull previously spent 18 years at Bell Pottinger, heading up the Pentagon-funded PR drive in occupied Iraq which included the production of fake al-Qaeda videos.[3]
Activities
Alexander Nix, former CEO of Cambridge Analytica, claimed to have "already helped supercharge leave.eu". A member of their staff was on the board of Leave.Eu. Their spending returns made no mention of leave.eu and they denied doing professional work for the campaign, although this remained contested as of March 2017.[4][5]
Brexit
The Register reported "According to a story doing the rounds, psychometric big data pushed Britain into Brexit and Trump on to America. The winning sides adopted a method developed at the University of Cambridge to psychometrically profile people by using publicly available data including Facebook "likes"."[6]
In a report about Cambridge Analytica the Financial Times reported that "The UK’s data privacy watchdog is examining the use of voters’ personal data by analytics companies, to assess whether Britons’ data protection rights were breached during political campaigns such as the EU referendum."[7]
Dismembering Iraq
Nafeez Ahmed headlined an article in March 2017 that "a network tied to Cambridge Analytica, Islamist insurgents, ExxonMobil and Koch convinced Trump to let go of Iraqi unity."[8]
Groups Headquartered Here
| Group | Start |
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| Reason Foundation | 1968 |
| StandWithUs | 2001 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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| Document:Beware the Cult of Cadwalladr | blog post | 22 January 2022 | Craig Murray | The present libel trial between Arron Banks and Carole Cadwalladr is therefore a struggle between two deeply unpleasant people. Cadwalladr’s lies, in my view, are political and still come within the realm of free speech. I support her right to say it, just as I support my right to denounce and expose her as an utterly unprincipled and fraudulent tool of the security services. |
| Document:Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie | Blog post | 1 April 2019 | Craig Murray | The capacity of the mainstream media repeatedly to promote the myth that Russia caused Clinton’s defeat, while never mentioning what the information was that had been so damaging to Hillary, should be alarming to anybody under the illusion that we have a working “free media”. |
| Document:Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance | Op-ed | 29 October 2017 | Carole Cadwalladr | (You got this? Farage visited Trump, then Assange, then Rohrabacher. Rohrabacher met Don Trump’s Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya. Then Assange. And is now trying to close the circle with Trump.) |
References
- ↑ "Cambridge Analytica Chief Advised Foreign Office On Trump's Presidential Campaign Data Tactics"
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/23/donald-trump-cambridge-analytica-steve-bannon
- ↑ "SCL – a Very British Coup"
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/mar/04/nigel-oakes-cambridge-analytica-what-role-brexit-trump
- ↑ https://www.markpack.org.uk/148592/electoral-commission-cambridge-analytica/
- ↑ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/07/cambridge_analytica_dystopianism/
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/7482ec7c-01c9-11e7-aa5b-6bb07f5c8e12
- ↑ https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/exclusive-inside-the-trump-lobby-that-wants-to-break-up-iraq-3ecf122f0ead?source=user_profile---------1-----------
