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There's an open secret about Cambridge Analytica in the political world
Business Insider ^ | Mar. 21, 2018 | Allan Smith

Posted on 03/22/2018 11:48:12 AM PDT by detective

Shortened title.

Full title: ere's an open secret about Cambridge Analytica in the political world: It doesn't have the 'secret sauce' it claims

As Sen. Ted Cruz mounted a bid for the presidency in 2016, a nascent, data-obsessed company presented his campaign with an intriguing proposition.

It had a "secret sauce" that no other firm could deliver.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cambridgeanalytica

1 posted on 03/22/2018 11:48:12 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective
It had a "secret sauce" that no other firm could deliver....

McDonald's Szechuan Sauce?

2 posted on 03/22/2018 11:58:01 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: detective

thousand island and sweet pickle relish?


3 posted on 03/22/2018 11:58:47 AM PDT by sappy (criminaldems)
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To: detective

The dems are only screaming because they considered the lefties at Facebook “theirs” and didn’t expect the GOP to even attempt to use any of the data they collect.


4 posted on 03/22/2018 12:00:21 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Strzok and Page - The very definition of SEDITION and TREASON!)
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To: detective

Russian dressing?

5.56mm


5 posted on 03/22/2018 12:04:18 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: detective

Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions – on a sesame seed bun?


6 posted on 03/22/2018 12:12:41 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO BELIEVE Cambridge Analytica worked for the Trump campaign, and either stole, hacked, or through some other nefarious way mined personal information from 50 million Americans and used it to target ads on Facebook to people likely receptive to them.......activities that were lauded as leading edge stuff when Democrats did it.

WHERE WAS ZUCKERBERG when the Obama campaign used Facebook as a campaign tool in 2012? Buying a new tee shirt?

Obama suggesting to his supporters: “Why not try sifting through my self-described supporters’ Facebook pages in search of friends who might be on the campaign’s list of the most persuadable voters? Then the campaign could ask the self-identified supporters to bring their undecided friends along. The technique, as they saw it, could also get supporters to urge friends to register to vote, to vote early or to volunteer and donate,” wrote the New York Times in a 2013 story about President Obama’s reelection campaign.

Add to that obscenity, the confession by a former Obama campaign staffer that they basically took whatever they wanted from Facebook, with Facebook’s blessing.

As the criticism of Trump escalates, you recognize that Zuckerberg has stupidly enforced double standards, never expecting to get caught.

Let’s see....last report was that Facebook lost $50 BILLION in value......and counting.


7 posted on 03/22/2018 12:35:19 PM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Basically, they got beaten at their own game, with their own rules.

And they’re whining about it now.


8 posted on 03/22/2018 12:51:05 PM PDT by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: detective; All


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9 posted on 03/22/2018 12:52:01 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: detective
Let's be honest. The MSM has been feed opposition research on Trump from the git go and is still being fed such information to try to destroy him and his administration. They have been helped by our Security Agencies, Law Enforcement and by politicians of both political parties (curse you John McCain and your hand off of Fusion GPS documents).

First it was he was disrespectful to women (locker room talk about grabbing pussy), his current wife was a prostitute, a terrible woman who posed for lewd pictures, he was in bed with the Russians, He is not releasing his taxes as it shows how corrupt he is. The Russians feed him political information that he used to defeat Hillary. His “university” courses were a fraud. He was connected to the mob. He was racist (forget the award picture with Mohammad Ali and Rosa Parks). He is a liar look at all the false fact check articles. He was taking money from a German Bank that had some Russian clients. He was money laundering. He was given middle eastern help with real estate project. .............and now the latest...he had an affair with Stormy Daniels.

My God give it a rest. Every week it seem the MSM is tossing another batch of spaghetti on the wall to see if any of it sticks to Trump. Mueller is doing the same thing.

This is getting absurd. It is time to stop all this B.S. and let the President govern.

What is next, are they going say he was born in Kenya or that his wife is a former KGB agent planted to seduce him and gain the ear of the US President?

10 posted on 03/22/2018 12:57:43 PM PDT by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Robert357
The MSM has been feed opposition research on Trump from the git go and is still being fed such information to try to destroy him and his administration.

They have fallen into a trap they cannot get out of. Say - "Trump, waaaahhhhh!" and you lose my vote. Try saying instead - "It would be in the interests of the citizens of the United States to pursue policy W for X reasons, and the present policy Y fails for Z reasons," where there is no mention of Trump in X or Z.

They can't do it. They can't talk about the interest of US citizens [that's racist and nationalistic] and they can't argue without Trump because their reasons are that Trump hates [women, children, all races that aren't Russians or deplorables, etc.] t

11 posted on 03/22/2018 2:07:03 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Liz

“Add to that obscenity, the confession by a former Obama campaign staffer that they basically took whatever they wanted from Facebook, with Facebook’s blessing.”


Giving something of value for free to a political campaign is otherwise known as a campaign donation. In this case, it is guaranteed to NOT have been reported, which is a violation of campaign finance laws. FB’s Board should ALL be convicted in the same manner as Dinesh D’Souza (for inadvertently giving a few dollars more than permitted to an ex-classmate running for office) and serve time in prison.

ZUCKERBERG FOR PRISON, 2018!!!!


12 posted on 03/22/2018 2:25:22 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: detective

https://hackernoon.com/cambridge-analytica-what-the-media-wont-tell-you-772d7ec80e4

Makes sense


13 posted on 03/22/2018 3:01:58 PM PDT by ninonitti
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