But with the kind of data Cambridge Analytica had,
it allegedly targeted voters in many American states, who had not made up their minds, and had a high probability of moving.
Not exact matches
The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer
allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign —
targeting U.S.
voters.
The information gathered was then
allegedly used to send
targeted advertisements to American
voters in 2016 urging them to elect Donald Trump, who eventually won his bid for the US presidency.
This was
allegedly done to specifically
target and influence the
voters in the electorate during Donald Trump's presidential campaign in 2016.
Despite a slogan («Make America Great Again») that
targeted oldster nostalgia and irritated young nonwhites whose ancestors were either in some other country or barred from voting in this one when America was
allegedly great — and despite his stranger - than - fiction gaffes and scandals, Trump did almost exactly as well as Romney had among young
voters.
The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer
allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign —
targeting U.S.
voters.
On this week's If Then, Slate's April Glaser and Will Oremus dissect the latest fallout from the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, wherein the profile data of more than 50 million Facebook users was obtained and
allegedly used by Donald Trump's online
voter -
targeting firm.
The firm
allegedly used data illegitimately scraped from Facebook to build «psychographic» profiles of American
voters and
target them with propaganda.
securityaffairs.co - The commercial data analytics company Cambridge Analytica
allegedly used data harvested by Facebook to
target US
voters in the 2016 Presidential election.