Posted on 06/15/2018 10:32:43 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm brought down by a scandal over how it obtained Facebook users’ private data, has quietly been working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort, The Associated Press has learned.
The AP confirmed that at least four former Cambridge Analytica employees are affiliated with Data Propria, a new company specializing in voter and consumer targeting work similar to Cambridge Analytica’s efforts before its collapse. The company’s former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, leads the new firm, which also includes Cambridge Analytica’s former chief data scientist.
Oczkowski denied a link to the Trump campaign, but acknowledged that his new firm has agreed to do 2018 campaign work for the Republican National Committee. Oczkowski led the Cambridge Analytica data team which worked on Trump’s successful 2016 campaign....
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Excellent. smart move.
There was no ‘scandal’.
CA bought and paid for the data and FB sold it.
The only ‘scandal’ was that FB got caught doing it.................
Now will FB give user data to Trump for free like they did for Obunghole?-)
Agree. No scandal. None. But I am happy they are looking at analytics this early.
The purpose if this article is what? Connect Trump somehow to the Cambridge Analytica thing? Really???
I think so. In the mind of the j@ck@$$ author, Cambridge Analytica is associated with Trump therefore tainted and evil. Juvenile writing/thinking.
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