Well if you thought the story about Cambridge Analytica's use of data from 50 million facebook accounts was not enough, here is even more information of the methods used by people who helped Trump to power.
https://www.channel4.com/news/cambri...-investigation
In fact Mr Nix has been fired as a consequence of the Facebook scandal and the revelations. Cambridge Analytica said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...-alexander-nix
It looks like there is more to come so stay tuned. This is going to be very interesting.
In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company’s chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world. This includes operating through a web of shadowy front companies, or by using sub-contractors.
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.
In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”
In fact Mr Nix has been fired as a consequence of the Facebook scandal and the revelations. Cambridge Analytica said:
“In the view of the board, 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.”
It looks like there is more to come so stay tuned. This is going to be very interesting.
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