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Robert Mercer owns Cambridge Analytica[1], a Facebook analytics & targeted advertising company. Allegedly CA has close ties to Brexit and donated services to t
by deepnet 10y ago
Robert Mercer owns Cambridge Analytica[1], a Facebook analytics & targeted advertising company.
Allegedly CA has close ties to Brexit and donated services to the Brexit campaign, that went undeclared [2].
Cambridge Analytica data exists outside European Data protections.
Mercer also owns Breitbart .com [3]
[1] https://cambridgeanalytica.org/ https://cambridgeanalytica.org/
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/feb
/26/us-billionaire-mercer-helped-back-brexit
[3] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-38005983 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-38005983
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoEven before either of the campaigns they were involved in succeeded, I've read articles that seem to suggest they were better at marketing themselves and selling than actually delivering what they claimed they could. Maybe they got better at it, but personally I'd point the finger at decades of Murdoch-led media brainwashing rather than anything new-fangled. It used to be Boris Johnson's actual job as a journalist to make up lies about the EU to be fed to nationalistic, right-wing old people. And that demographic did much more for them than the (relative) youngsters on facebook.
- deepnet 10y ago[edit] I am inclined to agree.
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