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One person wondered if Bannon and company gave Russia the idea to spread information during the 2016 presidential campaign. We should too
Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee who blew the whistle on its alleged misuse of Facebook data, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company offered services to discourage voting from targeted sections of the American population.
"Mr. Bannon sees cultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics. It was for this reason Mr. Bannon engaged SCL (Cambridge Analytica's parent company), a foreign military contractor, to build an arsenal of informational weapons he could deploy on the American population," Wylie claimed, referring to Trump's former top political adviser Steve Bannon....
“Wylie told CNN that although he did not take part in voter suppression activities, he alleged that African-Americans were particular targets of Cambridge Analytica's "voter disengagement tactics," which he said were used to "discourage or demobilize certain types of people from voting," and that campaigns and political action committees requested voter suppression from Cambridge Analytica...”
~CNN
Read More: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
Read More: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html
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One person wondered if Bannon and company gave Russia the idea to spread information during the 2016 presidential campaign. We should too
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