Cambridge Analytica consultants (Trump, Baudet) gepakt op film

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Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News reveals how Cambridge Analytica secretly campaigns in elections across the world. Bosses were filmed talking about using bribes, ex-spies, fake IDs and sex workers.

In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company’s chief executive Alexander Nix said the British firm secretly campaigns in elections across the world. This includes operating through a web of shadowy front companies, or by using sub-contractors.

In one exchange, when asked about digging up material on political opponents, Mr Nix said they could “send some girls around to the candidate’s house”, adding that Ukrainian girls “are very beautiful, I find that works very well”.

In another he said: “We’ll offer a large amount of money to the candidate, to finance his campaign in exchange for land for instance, we’ll have the whole thing recorded, we’ll blank out the face of our guy and we post it on the Internet.”

Offering bribes to public officials is an offence under both the UK Bribery Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Cambridge Analytica operates in the UK and is registered in the United States.

The admissions were filmed at a series of meetings at London hotels over four months, between November 2017 and January 2018. An undercover reporter for Channel 4 News posed as a fixer for a wealthy client hoping to get candidates elected in Sri Lanka.

Mr Nix told our reporter: “…we’re used to operating through different vehicles, in the shadows, and I look forward to building a very long-term and secretive relationship with you.”

Along with Mr Nix, the meetings also included Mark Turnbull, the managing director of CA Political Global, and the company’s chief data officer, Dr Alex Tayler.

Mr Turnbull described how, having obtained damaging material on opponents, Cambridge Analytica can discreetly push it onto social media and the internet.

He said: “… we just put information into the bloodstream of the internet, and then, and then watch it grow, give it a little push every now and again… like a remote control. It has to happen without anyone thinking, ‘that’s propaganda’, because the moment you think ‘that’s propaganda’, the next question is, ‘who’s put that out?’.”

Mr Nix also said: “…Many of our clients don’t want to be seen to be working with a foreign company… so often we set up, if we are working then we can set up fake IDs and websites, we can be students doing research projects attached to a university, we can be tourists, there’s so many options we can look at. I have lots of experience in this.”

In the meetings, the executives boasted that Cambridge Analytica and its parent company Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL) had worked in more than two hundred elections across the world, including Nigeria, Kenya, the Czech Republic, India and Argentina.

The company is at the centre of a scandal over its role in the harvesting of more than 50 million Facebook profiles.

Chief executive Mr Nix has also been accused of misleading a parliamentary select committee, which is now asking him to provide further information. He has denied the allegations.

Tonight, a Cambridge Analytica spokesman said: “We entirely refute any allegation that Cambridge Analytica or any of its affiliates use entrapment, bribes, or so-called “honey-traps” for any purpose whatsoever… We routinely undertake conversations with prospective clients to try to tease out any unethical or illegal intentions…”

They said: “Cambridge Analytica does not use untrue material for any purpose.”

And they insisted that opposition research and intelligence gathering, the use of subcontractors and working discreetly with clients are all common practice and legitimate.

This report is Part Two of a Channel 4 News series, ‘Data, Democracy and Dirty Tricks’, investigating Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:08 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:
Iets zegt me dat dit, binnen de kortste keren, wordt weggezet als 'fake news'.

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:16 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Ik hoop/verwacht dat er meer duidelijk zal worden over de precieze rol van Bannon (en Breitbart) in dezen.

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:18 schreef Wup2 het volgende:
Bedankt voor het filmpje in de OP clumsy_clown
ik wist heel weinig hiervan, nu wat meer.

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:19 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Dat heb ik gemist, werkelijk?

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:27 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Waarom zou Baudet in zee gaan met een bedrijf als dit? Kunnen we nu weer een herhaling verwachten van die hele discussie over hem en z'n dineetje met een white surpremacist, maar dan slecht met wat andere namen?

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:32 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Ja bizar. In een nacht kun je gemakkelijk alle harde schijven kapot slaan. Zou C4 niks van tevoren hebben laten weten? Dat is ook niet snugger.

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:36 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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En je zou zeggen dat je hier wel een rechter voor uit z'n bed mag slepen.

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Op maandag 19 maart 2018 22:42 schreef speknek het volgende:
Ook een mooie:

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moira twitterde op maandag 19-03-2018 om 21:31:48 Your regular reminder that the State Department's Global Engagement Center has Cambridge Analytica on a contract. The GEC is the government to office charged with fighting disinformation. https://t.co/xIKyZbionv reageer retweet

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Wie weet, misschien vinden ze het wel goed zo.

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carolecadwalla twitterde op maandag 19-03-2018 om 22:19:11 BREAKING: Facebook WAS inside Cambridge Analytica's office but have now "stood down" following dramatic intervention by UK Information Commissioner's Office.. reageer retweet