Not exact matches
The calls for greater scrutiny followed reports on Saturday in The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm
founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, the
wealthy Republican
donor, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that it claimed could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.
The Campaign Finance Institute
found in New York City, the system multiplied the number of
donors, and expanded diversity beyond the traditional white, upper middle class and
wealthy who normally give money.
The
findings follow a week in which details of the party's black and white ball, where meetings with cabinet ministers were auctioned off to
wealthy donors, were revealed.
I sympathize with those who
found «Skin Fruit,» a museum's sell - out to Jeff Koons and a
wealthy donor's collection, a greater annoyance, but one could safely make fun of it.
James Smithson, a
wealthy Englishman who became the
founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, never visited the United States and his reason for bequeathing such a large fortune to a foreign country was never specified.
Reports on Saturday from the New York Times and the Observer of London said that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm
founded by former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon and
wealthy Republican
donor Robert Mercer, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.
The company,
founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, a
wealthy Republican
donor who has put at least $ 15 million into it, offered tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.
Then, Mr. Kogan gave the information to Cambridge Analytica, a firm
founded by Stephen K. Bannon, the former White House political adviser, and Robert Mercer, the
wealthy Republican
donor.
The firm was
founded with a $ 15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the
wealthy Republican
donor who has backed both Mr. Bolton's PAC and Mr. Trump.
In recent days, Facebook has been in the spotlight over reports that up to 60 million of its users» personal details were obtained by Cambridge Analytica, a data - analysis firm that worked with the Trump campaign in 2016 and was
founded by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, a
wealthy Republican
donor.