Cambridge Analytica

So it was ok for Leave UK to use CA then?

He may not like you either durhamjen come to that.(Odoni)
I think he may look at GN from time to time by the sounds of it although he wouldn't like to be associated with anybody old I bet.

I write a blog. Blog applications give you various statistics: how many page views there have been, from which countries people are viewing your blog, and how they got to it (e.g. via Facebook or Google, etc). The stats also tell you about what they call "Referring Sites".

I think that is the sort of thing primrose is talking about.

However, the analytics firm is also under scrutiny over campaigning for the 2016 referendum when Britons voted to leave the European Union.
Cambridge Analytica and the leaders of the Leave.EU group have previously boasted about working together during the Brexit campaign. However, they have since retracted their claims, saying no contract was signed and no work was completed.

Parliament is investigating the links between Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU as part of an investigation into fake news.
Did Cambridge Analytica and Leave.EU work together?
Arron Banks, the co-founder of Leave.EU, said in a book that in October 2015 his group hired Cambridge Analytica, a company that uses “big data and advanced psychographics” to influence people. In a November 2015, Leave.EU said on its website that Cambridge Analytica “will be helping us map the British electorate and what they believe in, enabling us to better engage with voters”.

In the same month, Cambridge Analytica director Brittany Kaiser spoke at a Leave.EU news conference. She said her organization would be “running large-scale research of the nation to really understand why people are interested in staying in or out of the EU”.
In February 2016, Cambridge Analytica chief executive Alexander Nix wrote in Campaign magazine that his company was working for Leave.EU. “We have already helped supercharge Leave.EU’s social media campaign by ensuring the right messages are getting to the right voters online,” said Nix, who was suspended by the company this week.
Leave.EU’s communications director Andy Wigmore also said on Twitter last year that his campaign group had used the company. “You should use Cambridge Analytics,” he said, adding that he could “highly recommend them”.

metro.co.uk/2018/03/22/eu-referendum-result-may-not-legitimate-due-facebook-scandal-warns-mep-7407581/

I hope there's a follow up to this.

Can you post a link to it?

Have just seen a photo of Brittany Kaiser, a senior CA exec sitting next to Arron Banks at the launch event of the Leave EU campaign [don't know how to copy it onto here, though...]

I don't think he would like lemon, either, Maizie, but that's okay as he would never go on gransnet.

Sorry, pages.

You know a lot about blog pabes, primrose. How do you know all that?

You wouldn't like him at all, lemon

I thought I remembered that name (Odoni) and guessed it was from one of durhamjen’s many links.So, where does he write, he doesn’t sound a fan of The Guardian!

Does a blog page actually log the route people used to get to it?

Yes, every web page does. It knows where you came from, how you found it (searching on Google - the keywords you used, a link, from FB etc), it knows the pages you visit, where you are located, how long you spend on each page and where you go at the end.

All rather odd.
Does a blog page actually log the route people used to get to it?
Well, it makes you wonder.

ps apparently his link was on The Poverty of Brexit thread

Yes it was, dj's posted links to two of his blogs as I recall. But how would he know where his 'visitors' came from. Does a blog page actually log the route people used to get to it?

How on earth did he know that he was getting people from Gnet reading his articles? (That bit feels rather sinister to me)

How the [very rude word] does he think we 'stumbled on him'? Could it be that some of us go to other places on the web besides Gnet..?

What a very strange comment for him to make...

And you say that was on the Gnet Facebook page, Jalima? (I have never been there though I do follow them on twitter)

politicalscrapbook.net/2018/03/revealed-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-director-donated-over-700000-to-tories/

ps apparently his link was on The Poverty of Brexit thread

Matt Hancock has just said on channel 4 that the Tory party has never had and does not have any connections with CA.

So all that money from Roger Gabb must be lies, whitewave.

Just checked whitewave and the only political post I can see on there is this one (am I allowed to re-post it here?):
Martin Odoni
^11 March at 20:32^·
I'm not sure how I feel about it, but I'm developing a bit of a following for my blog articles among regular forum-users... on Gransnet?

Yes. Gransnet.

For very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very obvious reasons, I'm not a member of their forum, and I'm not entirely sure how they stumbled upon me

There seems to a rumour circulating among them that I sometimes write for The Guardian. Well no, I don't. Never have done, very much doubt I ever will.

But... well... er... nice to be appreciated.

Have you heard of him? Well, me neither and he does sound a tad ageist.
So I won't bother to read any links with his name attached to them, whoever is posting them.

How funny.

Are you typing self-destruct posts Baggs?

Missed them unfortunately

oh dear, what happened there? should have italicised your comment and written your username as whitewave
sorry

^Are we completely anonymised on Facebook gransnet?
whitewave all the FB page does is give a link to certain threads, showing a 'picture posed by models' which GNHQ post on FB which they think are interesting. I doubt the political threads make the grade !
So - you click on the link and are brought here.

People on the FB site can comment underneath and presumably use their own names. But your comments on any particular thread don't appear there.

However - if you enter competitions, then GN have your real name and address - are they kept or deleted after you win (or don't win as is normally the case)?

Yes, maiz, I know. I don't watch any TV channels on anything at my home address. Reading news on the BBC website is not watching telly.

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