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Cambridge Analytica

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OldMeg Wed 21-Mar-18 07:12:06

This is certainly an eye opener.

Has anyone been following the story? Channel 4 News did an excellent exposé.

Jette Sat 21-Apr-18 16:11:49

Apparently we are targeted with us knowing it.One place that may happen is in TV soaps.Even the humblest home has a fitted kitchen,dishwasher etc.So people want that even of they don't need it.When we hear on the News of a suicide then several people will follow suit.
Some white British people call blacks "those people" implying they are aliens.We are influenced all the time.

varian Wed 18-Apr-18 13:54:12

A leading pro-Brexit campaigner has praised the “very clever” propaganda techniques of the Nazis, a tape recording of private comments has revealed. “The propaganda machine of the Nazis, for instance – you take away all the hideous horror and that kind of stuff, it was very clever, the way they managed to do what they did”

Andy Wigmore also acknowledged that the Leave.EU group deliberately deployed “outrageous” and “provocative” tactics borrowed from Donald Trump to keep immigration at the heart of the 2016 referendum campaign.

Mr Wigmore was the communications director for Leave.EU campaign, which was endorsed by former Ukip leader Nigel Farage and funded by the millionaire businessman Arron Banks.

inews.co.uk/news/politics/pro-brexit-campaigner-nazis/

varian Wed 11-Apr-18 19:44:56

Something definitely should be done about this fraud, which could change the direction of our country, not just for five years, but for ever. If this is allowed to go unchallenged, we can never again claim to be a country governed by the rule of law.

jura2 Wed 11-Apr-18 19:41:28

thank you VArian - on an another thread, someone said something like 'if fraud was committed, something would be done about it' ...

BTW did you see the video of Farage thanking Breitbart and Steve Bannon for the Brexit vote?

varian Wed 11-Apr-18 19:31:41

The homepage of Cambridge Analytica says:-

"We are the global leader in data-driven campaigning with over 25 years of experience, supporting more than 100 campaigns across five continents. Within the United States alone, we have played a pivotal role in winning presidential races as well as congressional and state elections"

As we now know they, and their associated companies ,played a pivotal role in the fraudulent brexit referendum.

Why are so few people bothered by this????

ca-political.com/?__hstc=163013475.03bf766a27672138d38150b2c5574cac.1523471063593.1523471063593.1523471063593.1&__hssc=163013475.1.1523471063593&__hsfp=2410917565

varian Wed 11-Apr-18 12:28:36

Christopher Wylie, Leave voter and whistle blower, appeared on the Andrew Marr show. Someone must have thought that we should hear what he had to say about the scandal of the Leave campaign flagrantly breaching electoral rules to win the referendum, which in the view of Dominic Cummings, they would otherwise have lost.

Am I the only one who saw this interview and thought that Andrew Marr was unbelievably rude to Christopher Wylie?If you didn't see the interview you can find it on iplayer.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b09z7fzk/the-andrew-marr-show-08042018

varian Wed 11-Apr-18 10:22:22

Christopher Wylie, who has exposed the scandal of the Leave Campaign using Aggregate IQ to secretly manipulate the EU referendum points out that:-

"The official Vote Leave campaign led by Michael Gove and Boris Johnson spent 40% of its budget on AIQ. This is public record: invoices are published on the Electoral Commission’s website. Dominic Cummings said that “without a doubt, the Vote Leave campaign owes a great deal of its success to the work of AggregateIQ. We couldn’t have done it without them”.

"Vote Leave paid an additional £625,000 directly to AIQ on behalf of BeLeave. This was the largest single donation that Vote Leave made during the referendum. Donating to another campaign is perfectly legal – but only if the other campaign is actually separate. But if Vote Leave spent this sum of money in a coordinated way with BeLeave, it would have breached the legal spending limit."

"If this happened in Kenya or Nigeria, a new vote would be demanded by international observers. If this happened in a local constituency, a by-election would be called. Surely British democracy is mature enough to respond when something looks like it may have gone wrong, especially when the stakes are so high. The referendum was won by less than 2% of the vote. Could this have made the difference? Vote Leave’s chief strategist said it did: on a quote – now deleted – for AIQ’s website."

He goes on to say:-

"I am a progressive Eurosceptic. I supported Leave. This is not about “remoaning”. It’s about upholding the rule of law. The UK is about to embark on the most profound change to its constitutional settlement in a generation. We must be absolutely certain that this is being done on a proper legal basis. These are uncomfortable facts and hard questions. But Britain mustn’t “pull a Facebook”. Denial doesn’t work."

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/07/christopher-wylie-why-i-broke-the-facebook-data-story-and-what-should-happen-now

whitewave Wed 04-Apr-18 08:25:11

This was a tweet from Aaron Banks

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZ5KQdRWAAMK5f3?format=jpg

MaizieD Tue 03-Apr-18 23:03:23

Oh dear.

It's rather crude, ladies, so don't look if you're of a sensitive disposition, but Guido seems to have scored on own goal here

twitter.com/SLATUKIP/status/981286588545142784

whitewave Tue 03-Apr-18 12:47:53

More evidence

www.desmog.uk/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/styles/full_width_blog_image/public/blogimages/Cambridge%20Analytica%20Trump%20Brexit%20cropped.jpg?itok=8EgdKhFT

whitewave Tue 03-Apr-18 12:45:48

The CA scandal continues apace although you would never know it from the BBC with its own agenda of fighting the May elections on behalf of the Tories

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZt-wUBXcAE781K?format=jpg

whitewave Tue 03-Apr-18 08:59:52

maize correct!

MaizieD Tue 03-Apr-18 08:38:23

Now that I've had a quick peek at the anti-Corbyn hysteria thread and discovered that Primrose gets her information from Guido Fawkes I know what 'revelation' she was expecting in the Observer.

durhamjen Mon 02-Apr-18 18:58:51

Someone on the leave side being honest about it.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/02/worked-vote-leave-referendum-brexit

We need another vote.

durhamjen Mon 02-Apr-18 15:58:05

Where's the link to Remain, primrose?

durhamjen Mon 02-Apr-18 15:56:52

Info about the DUP in that link.

durhamjen Mon 02-Apr-18 15:54:29

t.co/Zp7FQIfn7T

A link to Upguard looking into links to Leave groups.

durhamjen Mon 02-Apr-18 15:52:01

Carol Cadwalladr still working hard on Cambridge Analytica links, with others helping.

twitter.com/carolecadwalla

whitewave Sun 01-Apr-18 19:44:57

Yet more evidence

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZsgpTsXUAA3ssi?format=jpg

whitewave Sun 01-Apr-18 14:39:11

One other mystery not yet solved is the question as to where the £435000 the DUP had to fight the referendum, come from?

Someone must know. But we do know that very little of it was spent in NI.

whitewave Sun 01-Apr-18 13:35:34

Thoughts by Churchill on aMPs duty

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZsepxgW0AAK68M?format=jpg

whitewave Sun 01-Apr-18 13:35:03

More thoughts

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZsO424XcAE7o0w?format=jpg

whitewave Sun 01-Apr-18 13:29:21

pbs.twimg.com/media/DZsCPAzW4AYfljf?format=jpg

whitewave Sun 01-Apr-18 13:25:59

SomRemain have not yet been found to have cheating whereas Leave.......well!!

Carol Callwaldre tweeted

“How did vote leave, believe, the DUP, veterans for Britain, Gove and Stuart all find the same data firm? It is 5000 miles away. It didn’t come up on a single google search at the time.
But it is outside British jurisdiction!!,”

More damning evidence of the cheating Leave group.

durhamjen Sun 01-Apr-18 11:18:30

Must be a non-story - someone playing an April fool's joke on primrose.