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- The Power of Big Data and Psychographics - Concordia, September 27, 2016
- In a presentation at the 2016 Concordia Annual Summit in New York, Mr. Alexander Nix discusses the power of big data in global elections. Cambridge Analytica’s revolutionary approach to audience targeting, data modeling, and psychographic profiling has made them a leader in behavioral microtargeting for election processes around the world.
- Cambridge Analytica: how big data shaped the US election - Channel 4 News, October 24, 2016
- Inside the Trump Campaign’s Data Bunker - Bloomberg Politics, October 27, 2016
- Alexander Nix, CEO, Cambridge Analytica - Online Marketing Rockstars Keynote | OMR17 - OMR (Online Marketing Rockstars), March 10, 2017 (talk about the Trump campaign starts at 12 min)
- From mad men to math men. Cambridge Analytica first gained notoriety for their role in Donald Trump's presidential campaign. In the Online Marketing Rockstars Keynote | OMR17, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix discusses big data, the methodologies and strategies used to identify people's behavior and how data analytics factors into political campaigns.
- Meet The Man Behind Cambridge Analytica, Who Made Trump President - TRNN Documentary, November 2, 2017
- This is the story of Robert Mercer, the far-right billionaire that is a major investor in Cambridge Analytica that data scrubbed Facebook for Trump, brought Bannon to the White House, and made his daughter the major owner of Breitbart News and board member of Cambridge Analytica
- Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles' - The Guardian, March 17, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica: Whistleblower reveals data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles - Channel 4 News, March 17, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica boss under fire from MPs - Channel 4 News, March 18, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks - Channel 4 News, March 19, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica: Undercover Secrets of Trump's Data Firm - Channel 4 News, March 20, 2018
- Revealed: Cambridge Analytica data on thousands of Facebook users still not deleted - Channel 4 News, March 28, 2018
- Trump, Brexit & the Dark Art of Shifting Votes - 30 min documentary by Cathy Vogan, based on her 2017 talk at Politics in the Pub in Sydney. Consortium News, November 2, 2019
- SHADOW GATE – FULL FILM BY MILLIE WEAVER - 2020 - August 16, 2020 (mirror, deleted from YouTube)
Sources
- Cruz partners with donor's 'psychographic' firm - Politico, July 7, 2015
- Cruz-Connected Data Miner Aims to Get Inside U.S. Voters' Heads - Sasha Issenberg, Bloomberg, November 12, 2015
- Ted Cruz using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users - Harry Davies, The Guardian, December 11, 2015
- Inside Donald Trump's Data Analytics Team on Election Night - Bradley Hope, WSJ, November 9, 2016
- Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right - Bloomberg, November 10, 2016
- Trump's Big Data Mind Explains How He Knew Trump Could Win - Wired, November 11, 2016
- Ich habe nur gezeigt, dass es die Bombe gibt, Hannes Grassegger und Mikael Krogerus, Das Magazin, December 03, 2016 (now behind paywall, full article archived on Wayback Machine (first version))
- "I only showed them the bomb", original German language article in Swiss magazine about the work of psychologist Michal Kosinksi and "how he got Trump to win"
- Theresa May 'wants to use an army of computerised Trump "mind-readers" to help her win the next Election' - Daily Mail, December 18, 2016
- “Mind Manipulations” to Influence Election Results - Peter Koenig, Global Research, January 6, 2017
- The Rise of the Weaponized AI Propaganda Machine, BERIT ANDERSON AND BRETT HORVATH, Scout, February 9, 2017
- The Cambridge Analytica Files, The Guardian, March 17, 2018 - ad nauseam
- Trump, Cambridge Analytica and how big data is reshaping politics - FT, September 29, 2017
- More specifically, the team had amassed, on average, 5,000 data points about the behavioural trends of American citizens — from health concerns to car ownership. These had been purchased — entirely legally — from technology companies, using the digital trails we create whenever we go online. The team combined this with psychological Facebook surveys to create portraits of groups of consumers-cum-voters. Only then did they use political data on issues such as voting patterns, which were overlaid on the consumer information for campaign teams to target specific groups of voters on social media.
- Cambridge Analytica, the shady data firm that might be a key Trump-Russia link, explained - Sean Illing, Vox, March 17, 2018
- The Cambridge Analytica Files: ‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower - Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, March 18, 2018
- Facebook has suspended the account of the whistleblower who exposed Cambridge Analytica - Jonathan Shieber, TechCrunch, March 19, 2018
- SCL Group’s Eurasian Vacation - TEXTIFIRE, March 20, 2017
- Exposed: Undercover secrets of Trump’s data firm, Channel4, March 20, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica and its many scandals, explained - Andrew Prokop, Vox, March 21, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica-linked firm 'boasted of poll interference' - BBC News, March 25, 2018
- The document claims SCL Elections deliberately exploited ethnic tensions in Latvia in the 2006 national elections in order to help their client.
- Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Tells UK Lawmakers, Trump's Election Made Him Speak Out - ZeroHedge, March 27, 2018
- Vote Leave 'cheating' could have swayed Brexit – Cambridge Analytica whistleblower to MPs (VIDEO) - RT, March 27, 2018
- How Cambridge Analytica's Parent Company Infiltrated Yemen - Max Blumenthal / Grayzone Project, TruthDig, June 4, 2018 (part I)
- Documents Show Private Intelligence Web Behind Global Surveillance Program - Max Blumenthal / Grayzone Project TruthDig, June 5, 2018 (part II)
- Internal documents exclusively obtained by the Grayzone Project (and embedded after this article) show how Cambridge Analytica’s UK-based parent company, SCL group, conducted a surveillance operation in Yemen called Project Titania. The initiative relied on psychological profiling, “strategic communications campaigns,” and infiltration of foreign operatives into indigenous communities through unwitting local partners whom they were instructed to deceive.
- ‘They were planning on stealing the election’: Explosive new tapes reveal Cambridge Analytica CEO’s boasts of voter suppression, manipulation and bribery Paul Hilder, OpenDemocracy January 28, 2019
- Facebook to be fined $5bn for Cambridge Analytica privacy violations – reports - The Guardian, July 12, 2019
- Investigation: Cambridge Analytica and Psy-Group - The War Economy, July 30, 2019
SCL
- Powerbase page
- Project DUCO: An Impartial Technical Evaluation - Defense Science and Technology Laboratory, April 24, 2014 (PDF)
- Cambridge Analytica and the Government next to you - Open source investigations, April 4, 2018
- The aforementioned redacted documents, published by the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, give a broader picture of the tactics used by SCL to identify and target “key groups within the population to effectively influence their behaviour to realise a desired outcome”. Some of these tactics were employed in various countries other than the UK, such as Nigeria or Trinidad and Tobago, where SCL encouraged the populace “not to vote at all” through rallies involving local religious figures or by using graffiti images to create the impression that a grassroots movement was behind the specific campaign messages.
- SCL – a Very British Coup Liam O'Hare, Bella Caledonia March 20, 2018 More by this author
- Cambridge Analytica linked company taught at NATO STRATCOMCOE LSM.LV March 26, 2018
- The report praises the expertise of another British company, the "Behavioural Dynamics Institute" (BDI) which is described as "worthy of examination" and "at the forefront of behavioural communication for some years."
- TARGET AUDIENCE ANALYSIS Steve Tatham (StratCom and TAA Subject Matter Expert)
- AT THE heart of TAA is the ability to empirically diagnose the exact groupings that exist within target populations. Knowing these groupings allows them to be ranked and the ranking depends upon the degree of influence they may have in either promoting or mitigating constructive behaviour... It builds up a detailed understanding of current behaviour, values, attitudes, beliefs and norms, and examines everything from whether a group feels in control of its life, to who they respect, and what radio stations they listen to.
- The report praises the expertise of another British company, the "Behavioural Dynamics Institute" (BDI) which is described as "worthy of examination" and "at the forefront of behavioural communication for some years."
- The truth about Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US deep state actors Judie Hyland, WSWS, March 28, 2018
- THE TUESDAY LETTER: INSIDE SCL J.J. Patrick The Byline April 9, 2018
- "We have managed 23 election campaigns in their entirety, including second and third term elections for a number of clients."
- 31 election campaign countries listed, including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, +US and UK
- "To date, we have a 100% track record in election management. We have never lost an election, which we have managed."
- Cambridge Analytica Pt 2 Neil Sanders, August 22, 2018 Other blog posts on CA from Sanders
- How British Intelligence Sabotaged Cambridge Analytica Scandal - Kit Klarenberg, Mint Press, January 20, 2023
Valent Projects
- The risk misinformation poses to your organization - Newswhip', January 15, 2021
- NewsWhip founder and CEO Paul Quigley was joined by Amil Khan to comment on misinformation versus disinformation, explain why some brands are more successful at confronting misinformation, and discuss campaigns reestablishing common ground.
- Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics - Kit Klarenberg and Max Blumenthal, The Grayzone, December 24, 2021
- Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency - Kit Klarenberg, Mint Press, July 14, 2022
- How Covert British Information Wars Target Russia, Threatening Civilians and Journalists - Kit Klarenberg, Mint Press, September 21, 2022
Behavioural Dynamics Institute
- Powerbase entry
- The government hired several murky companies plying the same methods as Cambridge Analytica in their election campaign Politics and Insights March 23, 2018
Software
- AggregateIQ Created Cambridge Analytica's Election Software, and Here’s the Proof - Dell Cameron, Gizmodo, March 26, 2018
- The Aggregate IQ Files, Part One: How a Political Engineering Firm Exposed Their Code Base - UpGuard, March 26, 2018
Murder, She Wrote
- Cambridge Analytica whistleblower reveals shocking claim his predecessor was poisoned and police bribed - Adam Bienkov, Business Insider, March 27, 2018
- Skripal-Caruana-Malta-CA connection holes govt’s ‘only plausible suspect’ claim below waterline - Skwawkbox, April 6, 2018
Daphne Caurana Galizia, Maria Efimova, Pilatus, Henley and Partners, Legatum
- See also Sergei Skripal#Connection to Malta
- Taken at face value remarks by Legatum boss Christopher Chandler that his account at Pilatus was only set up to facilitate the procurement of a Maltese passport, suggests that Pilatus Bank and Henley and Partners services were packaged as sides of the same coin, enabled of course by the compliant accommodations of the Maltese government. Manuel Delia on facebook
- Cambridge Analytica, Henley & Partners, Pilatus Bank: connections we must remember Manuel Delia, March 21, 2018
- Henley asked SCL/Cambridge Analytica to introduce it to Joseph Muscat in 2011 Manuel Delia, April 8, 2018
- Series of investigation on "Golden Passports" by The Shift news
- Snarky Private Eye Correspondent Warns Readers Of Pilatus Bank And Malta’s Russian Ties Tim Diacono, LlovinMalta
- Russiagate Part Two: Malta Llama, May 9, 2018
- UK legal threat against MaltaToday over Azeri-Pilatus connection report MaltaToday May 6, 2018
- Mifsud had a position in the Malta foregn ministry under Michael Frendo
Context
- Obama, Facebook and the power of friendship: the 2012 data election - The Guardian, February 17, 2012
- video of Obama staffer Carol Davidsen
- "We were actually able to ingest the entire social network of the U.S, that's on Facebook ... The data is out there. You can't take it back"
- The above link is no longer available. Here is where she says it on video: Carol Davidsen | You Are Not a Target, at about 19:54 mark, 23:16 total length. Also here is some media coverage of those or related comments: Obama Campaign Staffer Says Facebook Allowed Them to Harvest Masses of Data -Breitbat, March 19, 2018; OK, you've deleted Facebook, but is your data still out there? -CBS News, March 23, 2018 --Resup (talk) 16:38, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
- Obama's Former Campaign Director Makes Bombshell Claim: Facebook Was "On Our Side" - ZeroHedge, March 20, 2018
- Facebook Ends Cooperation With "Third Party" Data Providers Including TransUnion, Experian - ZeroHedge, March 29, 2018
- Netflix’s The Great Hack explores how Cambridge Analytica sold your data during the 2016 election - Vox.com, July 25, 2019
Analysis
- Cambridge Analytica And The Manipulation Of People - Debs is Dead, Moon of Alabama, March 20, 2018
- SCL – a Very British Coup - Liam O'Hare, Bella Caledonia, March 20, 2018
- The Deep State Breaks Surface - Craig Murray, March 22, 2018
- The New Military-Industrial Complex of Big Data Psy-Ops - Tamsin Shaw, The New York Review of Books, March 21, 2018 (ZeroHedge)
- Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook MI6 Psyop - Left Hook by Dean Henderson, March 22, 2018
- Cambridge Analytica & The Facebook-Big Data Conspiracy - Andrew Korybko, Oriental Review, March 23, 2018
- Facebook, Not Russia, Helped Trump Win the 2016 Election (Cambridge Analytica) Trent Lapinski, Russia Insider, March 26, 2018
- Why the Cambridge Analytica scandal could be much more serious than you think: - Roger Cottrell, The London Economic, March 23, 2018
- A source close to Skripal has said he was investigating the collusion between the Internet Research Agency, AIQ, Cambridge Analytica and its parent company, SCL.
- The Chris Wylie story: A NATO psychological operation Christopher Black New Eastern Outlook April 9, 2018
- Analyst: Facebook Under Pressure as It Overtook Mainstream Media as Info Source - Sputnik, July 12, 2018