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So you think that it was fair that she was "exposed" in that piece? What exactly was her role in and relevance to Cambridge Analytica scandal? According to th
by kjksf 7y ago
So you think that it was fair that she was "exposed" in that piece?
What exactly was her role in and relevance to Cambridge Analytica scandal?
According to the article, she was an intern at SCL Election before 2013, in January 2013 she met with CEO and, the article absurdly claims that "she gave him the germ of an idea" by mentioning data and Palantir.
Oh, and she works at Uber now, which we all know is bad. Somehow.
It's absurd to suggest that what a former intern, even named Schmid, said in 2013 had any impact on what happened later.
SLC Group was founded in 1990, Palantir in 2003.
By 2013, SLC Group was involved in political lobbying and manipulation for over 20 years.
Cambridge Analytica was created in 2012, a year before the 2013 meeting.
The idea that CEO Cambridge Analytics didn't know about Palantir in 2013 or needed to be educated by a former intern about the importance of data is just laughable.
As far as I can tell the journalist opportunistically juiced up the story by twisting facts to fit a narrative of some sinister SV dominance and throwing a random person under the bus by trying to tie her to an international scandal.
- luckylion 7y agoTbh, "intern" doesn't need to mean that she copies documents and hangs around shadowing people. I agree that she most likely didn't tell them anything new when she recommended Palantir, it sounds more like what Trump is doing having his daughter work with others on his behalf. When it's about business with people you trust, immediate family is often the obvious choice. It's not ruled out, but it's not that likely that any random person would get great offers. Being the child of one of the most powerful men of the industry helps, so of course there's the family is involved. Playing the "oh yeah, but the relation is totally accidental, it had nothing to do with any decisions of businesses"-card sounds a bit strange.