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The way I heard the story, Alexander Nix was a chronic exaggerator who pushed the narrative that CA had a huge impact on Brexit and other elections when it simp
by etaioinshrdlu 7y ago
The way I heard the story, Alexander Nix was a chronic exaggerator who pushed the narrative that CA had a huge impact on Brexit and other elections when it simply wasn't true. He did this in order to gain more sales. They said the Facebook data was deleted by the time of the Trump campaign.
My theory is that they are not so different than a typical digital ad agency but they got caught up in a political tornado. I think we should at least be open minded to the possibility they have been scapegoated here.
- wavefunction 7y ago"Don't be so open-minded your brain falls out"
- rsynnott 7y ago> Nix said that his company uses honey traps, bribery stings, and prostitutes, for opposition research VERY NORMAL DIGITAL AD AGENCY THINGS.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y agoIt is possible Nix made all that up as a weird form of bragging to close a sale to a sleazy customer. I couldn't find any actual evidence to the contrary. This isn't my theory, it is literally what a CA employee told me in person.
- rsynnott 7y agoIn the immortal words of Mandy Rice-Davies, “well, he would, wouldn’t he”. People quite rarely say “why, yes, my employer does crimes”.
- PixyMisa 7y agoAh, I see you've worked with SEO companies too.
- batterystd 7y agoBut that how will I reconcile the cnn propaganda that drumf is always wrong and democratic party is always right and they lost because drumf cheated and not because democratic party sells out to China?
- disappearance 7y agoRubbish. Watch this. British investigative journalism at its best. Collaboration between the Guardian & Channel 4. https://www.channel4.com/news/data-democracy-and-dirty-tricks-cambridge-analytica-uncovered-investigation-expose https://www.channel4.com/news/data-democracy-and-dirty-trick...