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Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 12:23 PM Jun 2018

AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers

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AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers

By JEFF HORWITZ

32 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users' private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump's 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.

The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with Data Propria, a new company specializing in voter and consumer targeting work similar to Cambridge Analytica's efforts before its collapse. The company's former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads the new firm, which also includes Cambridge Analytica's former chief data scientist.


Oczkowski denied a link to the Trump campaign, but acknowledged that his new firm has agreed to do 2018 campaign work for the Republican National Committee. Oczkowski led the Cambridge Analytica data team which worked on Trump's successful 2016 campaign.

The AP learned of Data Propria's role in Trump's re-election effort as a result of conversations held with political contacts and prospective clients in recent weeks by Oczkowski. In one such conversation, which took place in a public place and was overheard by two AP reporters, Oczkowski said he and and Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, were "doing the president's work for 2020."

In addition, a person familiar with Data Propria's Washington efforts, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect business relationships, confirmed to the AP that Trump-related 2020 work already had begun at the firm along the lines of Cambridge Analytica's 2016 work.

Both Oczkowski and Parscale told the AP that no Trump re-election work by Data Propria was even planned, but confirmed that Parscale had helped Data Propria line up a successful bid on 2018 midterm polling-related work for the RNC

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AP: Trump 2020 working with ex-Cambridge Analytica staffers (Original Post) Wwcd Jun 2018 OP
I knew whenCambridge stopped doing business their critters would spawn and re emerge kimbutgar Jun 2018 #1
They will all have to be legally dismantled to stop this level of corruption Wwcd Jun 2018 #2
We need laws making mass manipulation through lies illegal. Hortensis Jun 2018 #3

kimbutgar

(24,071 posts)
1. I knew whenCambridge stopped doing business their critters would spawn and re emerge
Fri Jun 15, 2018, 12:32 PM
Jun 2018

Somewhere else. No shock. But we have to keep outing them and shaming them. Find out who these people are and make their lives miserable.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
3. We need laws making mass manipulation through lies illegal.
Sat Jun 16, 2018, 12:33 PM
Jun 2018

We won't be leading the way on that. Other democracies have already started and are seeing good results.

I read that Ukraine during hostilities with Russia had 4 Fox News/RT-type channels spewing Russian agitprop and now they not only have none, but national beliefs have skewed dramatically away from dangerously Kool-Aid soaked to more reality based.

If they can do it, so can we.

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