The company has faced a backlash after using Facebook to
create psychological profiles of voters.
The election services branch of SCL, Cambridge Analytica
created psychological profiles of voters for clients at SCL Group, which otherwise conducts «influence operations» on behalf of politicians and governments worldwide, which includes the use of political propaganda.
Not exact matches
It promised to target
voters» «unconscious
psychological biases,» by using massive amounts
of data develop personality
profiles, which could then be used to
create extremely specific ads.
The committee recently took evidence from Cambridge Analytica — the UK based company credited with helping Donald Trump win the US presidency by
creating psychological profiles of US
voters for ad targeting purposes.
Kogan, however, passed this data to Cambridge Analytica which allowed it to
create psychological profiles of over 50 million U.S.
voters thereby allowing them to manipulate their votes.