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Whistleblower says Canadian company worked on software to find Republican voters
Reuters ^ | 27 Mar 2018

Posted on 03/27/2018 7:31:27 AM PDT by mandaladon

LONDON (Reuters) - A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

AggregateIQ did not immediately respond to request for comment on the remarks by Christopher Wylie, a whistleblower formerly of British political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

Wylie has previously disclosed how users’ data from Facebook was used by Cambridge Analytica to help elect U.S. President Donald Trump.

Ripon, the town in which the Republican Party was founded in 1854, was the name given to a tool that let a campaign manage its voter database, target specific voters, conduct canvassing, manage fundraising and carry out surveys.

“There’s now tangible proof in the public domain that AIQ actually built Ripon, which is the software that utilised the algorithms from the Facebook data,” Wylie told the British Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee.

AggregateIQ told Reuters on March 24 that it had never been and is not a part of Cambridge Analytica nor ever entered into a contract with Cambridge Analytica.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: facebook; trump
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To: Flick Lives
Facebook actually has employees they will contract out to a political campaign.
The Clinton campaign didn’t. Her majesty being such a shoo-in, and all.

Heh....love it. Nice slapdown of Lady Loser.

Another reason why the Dems are pushing "Russia".....
anything to make Hillary feel good about her stupid decisions.

21 posted on 03/27/2018 8:44:31 AM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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To: mandaladon
A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

So??? I worked for a software company that did the same thing in 1992 - 1995. So what! We used voter registration rolls and vote patterns to do it. BFD!!! Nothingburger here other than OMG, Republicans did it! That's EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL!!!

Stupid media.

22 posted on 03/27/2018 8:47:12 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Enchante
oh my, they were searching data for potential Republican voters, what a scandal.....

Maxine explains Obama's database, like none other.

23 posted on 03/27/2018 8:55:28 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: mandaladon

Dems want to figure out how to outlaw GOP benefit from social media.

Only Dems can mine for votes.....


24 posted on 03/27/2018 9:00:50 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: usconservative

Who would trust a guy with pink hair saying he is disturbed?! I mean really, where do they find these people?


25 posted on 03/27/2018 9:01:26 AM PDT by Metrobank
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To: mandaladon; ransomnote; Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; ...

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26 posted on 03/27/2018 9:39:07 AM PDT by bitt (The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
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To: G Larry

They want the gun control approach.

Make it illegal for normal people, hire armed guards for themselves.

Make use of social media illegal for Republicans, then steal the data themselves (and lawyer up if caught).


27 posted on 03/27/2018 10:50:51 AM PDT by cgbg (Hidden behind the social justice warrior mask is corruption and sexual deviance.)
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To: mandaladon

More hyperbole.


28 posted on 03/27/2018 1:21:16 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: mandaladon

So ?


29 posted on 03/27/2018 3:56:26 PM PDT by PMAS (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing)
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To: mandaladon

Maybe this is what Mueller’s Special prosecutor is for - to root out every technique and individual that helped elect Trump, so they can be attacked and destroyed.


30 posted on 03/27/2018 4:03:39 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: mandaladon

So?


31 posted on 03/27/2018 4:45:30 PM PDT by Impy (D's might have a registration edge in the district but that doesn't mean I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: PGR88; All
They actually found Republicans on Facebook???<

Partner, "Exactly my thoughts too!!!"

Amazing how the Right Arm of the Rat party our darling MSM thinks we conservatives are a bunch of DA's.

32 posted on 03/27/2018 6:42:58 PM PDT by TheConservativeTejano
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To: mandaladon

Just placing my comment here.

Re Law Prof. James Sample of Hofstra and his criticism of the new Census reporting rule. he said that it would keep people from filling out the census forms.

WHAT AN ASSHOLE. If illegals don’t fill out the forms, then they will not be counted in the congressional district apportionment, which is what the law was intended to do.

Illegals who falsely claim to be US citizens and are caught will have just earned a One-Way Ticket to Tacoland or Lumumbaland. This is called “VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD” if they try to vote or have voted illegally in the past. Their census form can be used against them re conviction and/or deportation.

What doesn’t this so-called “law professor” understand about the law he supposedly teaches?

I would say, “A helluva lot”!

I was blessed with law professors who actually knew the Constitution and defended it, and they were mostly liberals, honorable men and women to who the Constitution and Bill of Rights applied to every American, not just the elite Marxists and Racists.


33 posted on 03/27/2018 8:14:14 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: mandaladon
"A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower said on Tuesday that Canadian company AggregateIQ worked on software called Ripon which was used to identify Republican voters ahead of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "


Noooooooooo!/sarc
34 posted on 03/28/2018 1:20:07 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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