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A friend just told me his boss (who’s the CEO but in general runs the company in a very modernized/worker friendly way) is willing to allow work from home but refusing to take more safety precautions b/c “the whole #COVID19 thing is a hoax from the biased media”. #MAGAMasochism😷
The whole story really highlights the problem with the unholy alliance between business owners, supply side economics (that aren’t worker friendly) and the @GOP. In a public health crisis, the CEO mentality still attempts to maintain profits while skimping on worker well-being.
IOW, the CEO mentality is very much aligned with Trump’s inclination to minimize the threat of Coronavirus/COVID19, not just b/c many of them voted for this disaster and still support it, but b/c acknowledging the scope of the problem then working to fix it requires less profit.
#NRA + Data Mining
Here are some never-seen-before docs that shed light on the NRA's massive data collection and voter profiling operations.
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Here are some never-seen-before docs that shed light on the NRA's massive data collection and voter profiling operations.
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From October 2015: Cambridge Analytica proposal to work alongside The Herald Group, a DC-based consulting firm to collect voter data and implement a behaviorally-microtargeted ad campaign on behalf of The Herald Group's client, the NRA.
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As noted in the first paragraph of this document, Cambridge Analytica was not the only firm collecting voter data for the NRA.
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Aleksandr Kogan and Joseph Chancellor were deceptively harvesting/matching data with that personality quiz on Facebook as GSR for SCL. John Bolton PAC was the client. @chrisinsilico’s papers to DCMS committee have the emails about delivering the data to Bolton.
Brittany Kaiser’s book #Targeted describes post-mortems with Robert Murtfeld where they show how similarly microtargeted tactics from the Trump campaign yielded 20% engagement boost on 95% confidence. #Hindsightis2020
The efficacy of CA’s targeting is hotly contested, there’s no doubt about that. It’s just marketing, in the end. But any marketing that can boast a 20% boost is not nothing. These ad archives show how messages can be tailored. Some will work better than others. #Hindsightis2020
.@AmbJohnBolton paid #CambridgeAnalytica for psychographic targeting via his SuperPAC in 2013-14. Ads targeted voters categorized in 5 groups. Look familiar? Then you were targeted
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@AmbJohnBolton Known for aggressive foreign policy decisions leading to the #IraqWar, he had 3 goals w/#CambridgeAnalytica
- increase awareness of @AmbJohnBolton
- convince people that National Security is most important
- support @SenThomTillis vs Kay Hagan in #NorthCarolina
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- increase awareness of @AmbJohnBolton
- convince people that National Security is most important
- support @SenThomTillis vs Kay Hagan in #NorthCarolina
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Just a taster from a hard drive that’s a “treasure trove of sketchy information” #TheGreatHack
🍨A veritable ice cream shoppe of scoops for the press, especially in 🇧🇷🇰🇪🇲🇾
🍨A veritable ice cream shoppe of scoops for the press, especially in 🇧🇷🇰🇪🇲🇾
In Jan 2017, I started my official Data Request from Cambridge Analytica per its involvement in the 2016 presidential elections. That same month, this was SCL's active/target Commercial and Political client list around the world. via @hindsightfiles
@HindsightFiles The #MerdekaPapers offer us a case study on the overlap between a political party (Barisan Nasional), the intelligence services (Special Branch), the petro-state (Petronas), and SCL, thanks to its approach of seeking to blur the boundaries between commercial/political work/data.
Location: Brazil
Document dates: 2015-2018
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Download: repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/brazi…
Document dates: 2015-2018
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Download: repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/brazi…
#Brazil, 2016. #APonteEstratégia - once a joint venture w/ #CambridgeAnalytica as #CAPonte let CA operate in-country. Portuguese-language brochures peddled services. $$$ was spent setting up offices & translating everything. Was the "work" w/ #Bolsonaro?
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'Archives reveal that Cambridge Analytica came to Brazil to work with a presidential candidate' via @revistaforum
revistaforum.com.br/politica/exclu…
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Data analytics firm #SCLGroup shut down amidst scandal when extensive data work in the shadows of elections globally was called into question via subsidiary #CambridgeAnalytica. To avoid document confiscation, SCL went bankrupt. Its time to release the files.
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Democracy has been hacked. #HindsightIs2020. Use this! Download it & pore over every detail. Together, the public can shine a light on what happened in dark places. #CambridgeAnalytica is just one example. It’s foresight we need to stop this from happening again.
The documents are organized into topical folders with a safe download link from a private server. You will not be targeted or tracked, but you will be thanked. Together we can assert our data rights & save democracy.
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