General Discussion

It has been done in the past and the process to achieve better results is being refined election after election until the desired results are achieved. Elon Musk and Peter Thief are the front runners of developing the means of manipulating elections via the use of computer data bases.

It has been done in the past. Various different computer analytical tools are still in the development stages to help deliver better election results for their paying clients of a specific ideological bend and lean.

Remember Cambridge Analytica who helped Ted Cruz and then switched to help D.J. Trump win the election to the White House during 2016,... at the behest of part owners the Mercer family.

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In March 2018, media outlets broke news of Cambridge Analytica's business practices. The New York Times and The Observer reported that the company had acquired and used personal data about Facebook users from an external researcher who had told Facebook he was collecting it for academic purposes.[30] Shortly afterwards, Channel 4 News aired undercover investigative videos showing Nix boasting about using prostitutes, bribery sting operations, and honey traps to discredit politicians on whom it had conducted opposition research, and saying that the company "ran all of (Donald Trump's) digital campaign". In response to the media reports, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) of the UK pursued a warrant to search the company's servers.[31][32] Facebook banned Cambridge Analytica from advertising on its platform, saying that it had been deceived.[33][34] On 23 March 2018, the British High Court granted the ICO a warrant to search Cambridge Analytica's London offices.[35] As a result, Nix was suspended as CEO, and replaced by Julian Wheatland.[36]

The personal data of up to 87 million[37] Facebook users were acquired via the 270,000 Facebook users who used a Facebook app created by Aleksandr Kogan called "This Is Your Digital Life". This was a personality profiling app and asked simple personality questions similar to other Facebook quizzes. Kogan was a scientist and psychologist, also being an employed lecturer for the University of Cambridge from 2012 to 2018. Alexander Nix claimed they had close to five thousand data points on each person who participated. They also gathered information through other data brokers ending with them acquiring millions of data points from American citizens.[38]

Kogan's app exploited a feature of Facebook's Graph API (version 1.0), which permitted any third-party app to access not only the app user's data, but also the full profile data of all of that user's Facebook friends, without those friends' knowledge or consent.[39] This platform-wide design was available to all developers and was used by tens of thousands of apps; Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg later told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that the company was auditing "tens of thousands" of apps that had had access to large amounts of user data.[40] Because the average Facebook user at the time had approximately 300 friends, the 270,000 users who installed Kogan's app yielded data on up to 87 million people.[41] Facebook deprecated the friends-data API in April 2014 and shut it down entirely in April 2015, but data already collected by apps remained in developers' possession.[42] Kogan passed this data to Cambridge Analytica[43], breaching Facebook's terms of service.

On 1 May 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL filed for insolvency proceedings and closed operations.[44][45] Alexander Tayler, a former director for Cambridge Analytica, was appointed director of Emerdata on 28 March 2018.[46] Rebekah Mercer, Jennifer Mercer, Alexander Nix and Johnson Chun Shun Ko [zh], who has links to American businessman Erik Prince, are in leadership positions at Emerdata.[47][48] The Russo brothers are producing an upcoming film on Cambridge Analytica.[49][50][20] In 2019 the Federal Trade Commission filed an administrative complaint against Cambridge Analytica for misuse of data.[51] In 2020, the British Information Commissioner's Office closed a three-year inquiry into the company, concluded that Cambridge Analytica was "not involved" in the 2016 Brexit referendum and found no additional evidence for Russia's alleged interference during the campaign.[52] US sensitive polling and election data, however, were passed to Russian Intelligence via a Cambridge Analytica contractor Sam Patten, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, and Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik, who was indicted during the affair.[53]

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