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Ted Cruz Using Firm That Harvested Data On Millions Of Unwitting Facebook Users
theguardian.com ^
| December 11, 2015
Posted on 01/30/2016 9:07:57 AM PST by Helicondelta
Ted Cruz's presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals, the Guardian can reveal.
A little-known data company, now embedded within Cruz's campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users
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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2016election; cambridgeanalytica; cds; cruz; dirtytricks; election2016; facebook; hata; old; oldnews; putinistas4trump; robertmercer; tedcruz; texas; zzzzz
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To: Helicondelta
I WONDERED what happened to my hata ... I know I hung it on the hook and PBBBFFT, it was gone !
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:09:27 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true.)
To: Helicondelta
I never put my Hata on Facebook.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:11:28 AM PST
by
Jagdgewehr
(It will take blood.)
To: Helicondelta
This doesn’t jive with his Tea Party image. This is NSA kinda stuff.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:11:40 AM PST
by
P-Marlowe
(Tagline pending.)
To: knarf
I date when that happens.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:11:52 AM PST
by
meatloaf
To: Helicondelta
Keep your name out of public media and it can’t happen
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:12:11 AM PST
by
Vaquero
( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: P-Marlowe
Exactly! this does not sound good coming from a “Constitutionalist Conservative”
To: meatloaf; knarf
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:12:51 AM PST
by
Salamander
(I made friends with a lot of people in the danger zone...)
To: knarf
somebody really posted this with a serious inclination?
Well, I HATA run, ttyl!
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:13:21 AM PST
by
dp0622
To: Helicondelta
Harvested HATA? Is this some kind of a new vegie? When is Hata season?
To: P-Marlowe
This is NSA kinda stuff.It's Facebook kinda stuff, which I think is even worse.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:14:13 AM PST
by
snarkpup
(My goal in life is to die of old age before the country does.)
To: knarf
To: P-Marlowe
Imagine if this came out before the debate on Thursday? Would have been fireworks for sure between Paul and Cruz on this one.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:15:32 AM PST
by
dowcaet
To: Helicondelta
Well .. if you’re dumb enough to put your personal “Hata”, then you should expect to get mined.
I don’t do Facebook or Twitter. Email is bad enough.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:15:39 AM PST
by
CyberAnt
("The Fields are White Unto Harvest")
To: meatloaf
Hopefully you’re not married.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:16:02 AM PST
by
Rusty0604
(1q)
To: Helicondelta
But not voting in 2012 was a vote for Obama, wasn’t it?
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:16:09 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Helicondelta
I’m stuned that such a thing could happen to my hata.
To: Helicondelta
I know I hata Ctl+V just a minute ago. Where could it have gone?
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:16:31 AM PST
by
don-o
(He will not share His glory. And He will NOT be mocked!)
To: Patriot Babe
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:17:22 AM PST
by
Aria
(2016: The gravy train v Donald Trump)
To: dowcaet
This has been out before now. I’ve read about it several times during his campaign.
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posted on
01/30/2016 9:17:35 AM PST
by
Rusty0604
(1q)
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