When this news broke out , that Facebook was spying on "us" using a third party app has given the trigger to the idea that any kind of meddling happened to our elections did happen, in case you wonder that (1.1)>>Cambridge Analytica has anything to do with Russia with little evidence that it was an inside job . Things will get more confusing .You have to read this carefully . AS what the news was reporting. Still no hit of Russian involvement .The board of Cambridge Analytica, the political data firm that allegedly exploited information from 50 million (1.2)>>Facebook users to help Donald Trump's campaign, suspended CEO Alexander Nix on Tuesday for his comments secretly recorded by a British broadcaster. In a series of broadcasts by Britain's Channel 4, Nix was filmed making controversial statements about his firm's work on elections, including how Cambridge Analytica played a major role in Trump's presidential victory, including "all the data, all the analytics, all the targeting."The suspended CEO also suggested to a potential client that his company could portray politicians in compromising situations. Nix's suspension was effective immediately."Mr. Nix’s recent comments secretly recorded by Channel 4 and other allegations do not represent the values or operations of the firm and his suspension reflects the seriousness with which we view this violation," the board of directors said in a statement. The broadcasts come amid questions about how Cambridge Analytica gained access to people's online profiles, as well as criticism against Facebook for its alleged inaction to protect users’ privacy. Nix, in the video shown Tuesday, also claimed credit for Cambridge Analytica's work with data and research that he said allowed (2)>>Trump to win the election with a narrow margin of "40,000 votes" in three swing states, giving Trump an electoral college victory, despite losing the popular vote.Since Trump’s election, Cambridge Analytica has flip-flopped over its role in the campaign. The company initially claimed credit for helping elect Trump, but Nix also sought to portray the firm's role as minimal amid investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.Channel 4's broadcast came a day after the network showed surreptitiously obtained video of Nix saying his company could entrap politicians. Monday night's broadcast in Britain showed one exchange in which Nix said the company could "send some girls around to the candidate’s house." Ukrainian girls, he said, "are very beautiful. I find that works very well." Since then, Facebook has suspended both the firm, as well as the whistleblower who let the cat out of the bag.The latest is even more shocking, as we’re seeing just how low this company is willing to go. It also shows how low the reality of the 2016 election really was.
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(1.1)>>Cambridge Analytica . Cambridge Analytica has ties to both former Trump chief counselor Steve Bannon and Trump 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale. Facebook suspended the company on Friday after finding that it had violated its data privacy policies, preventing it from buying ads or administer client pages. (1)>>Facebook users to help Donald Trump's campaign,. In June 2016, the Trump campaign hired Cambridge Analytica to take over its data operations. We know from the reporting of Nicholas Confessore and Danny Hakim at the New York Times that Jared Kushner, who was charged with overseeing Trump’s digital operations, is the reason Cambridge Analytica joined the Trump campaign. Kushner hired a man named Brad Parscale, a Texas-based digital expert who had worked previously for team Trump. According to Confessore and Hakim, Cambridge Analytica convinced Parscale (who has since agreed to be interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee) to “try out the firm.” The decision was reinforced by Trump’s campaign manager, Steve Bannon, who is also a former vice president of Cambridge Analytica.It’s not clear to what extent Cambridge Analytica helped (Parscale denied that Cambridge was of any use in a recent 60 Minutes interview), but we do know that Trump’s digital operation was shockingly effective. Samuel Woolley, who heads the Computational Propaganda project at Oxford’s Internet Institute, found that a disproportionate amount of pro-Trump messaging was spread via automated bots and anti-Hillary propaganda. Trump’s bots, they reported at the time of the election, outnumbered Clinton’s five to one. (2)>>Trump to win the election with a narrow margin of "40,000 votes". It doesn’t cease to amaze me how quick American’s are to blame a myriad of entities before themselves when it comes to their own errors. Just WHO Elected Trump? It was the Russians ?. It was social networks ?. Some people claim it was Bernie Sanders.Perhaps, just perhaps, this isn’t a new problem, and the US has been full of xenophobic, proud, emotional and irrational people all along. I know I did not vote for Trump . I saw an opportunity to cast my vote for Hillary , she lost . There has to have been other forces at work . Perhaps, just perhaps, previous presidencies weren’t as great as you remember it to be, and a lot of people were mad at the banks got bailed out, or private corporations were given the freedom to move all their manufacturing abroad, and they didn’t vote cause they didn’t see any hope in either of the candidates. 2016 we had narrow choices , both Hillary and Trump were the least popular
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