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Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’
An explosive leak of tens of thousands of documents from the defunct data firm Cambridge Analytica is set to expose the inner workings of the company that collapsed after the Observer revealed it had misappropriated 87 million Facebook profiles.
More than 100,000 documents relating to work in 68 countries that will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on “an industrial scale” is set to be released over the next months.
It comes as Christopher Steele, the ex-head of MI6’s Russia desk and the intelligence expert behind the so-called “Steele dossier” into Trump’s relationship with Russia, said that while the company had closed down, the failure to properly punish bad actors meant that the prospects for manipulation of the US election this year were even worse.
The release of documents began on New Year’s Day on an anonymous Twitter account, @HindsightFiles, with links to material on elections in Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil. The documents were revealed to have come from Brittany Kaiser, an ex-Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower, and to be the same ones subpoeaned by Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Kaiser, who starred in the Oscar-shortlisted Netflix documentary The Great Hack, decided to go public after last month’s election in Britain. “It’s so abundantly clear our electoral systems are wide open to abuse,” she said. “I’m very fearful about what is going to happen in the US election later this year, and I think one of the few ways of protecting ourselves is to get as much information out there as possible.”
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Ads paid for by @AmbJohnBolton were psychographically targeted meaning they tapped into voter psyche via data collection. The ads used research on voter hopes + fears. Fear was a favorite tactic. This ad went to the category #NEUROTIC #Hindsightis2020https://t.co/IN2FpWYDge pic.twitter.com/dEnTNqsxK7
— Hindsight is 2020 (@HindsightFiles) January 3, 2020
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 #Hindsightis2020 pic.twitter.com/N82kvNkoWO— Hindsight is 2020 (@HindsightFiles) January 3, 2020
.@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 #Hindsightis2020 pic.twitter.com/Wwp7HUjuXR
— Hindsight is 2020 (@HindsightFiles) January 3, 2020
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. #Hindsightis2020
— Hindsight is 2020 (@HindsightFiles) January 2, 2020
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BRAZIL: http://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/brazil.zip … KENYA: http://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/kenya.zip … MALAYSIA: http://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01012020/malaysia.zip … JOHN BOLTON: https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01042020/bolton.zip … IRAN: https://repo.hindsightfiles.com/01042020/iran.zip … #Hindsightis2020