Sentences with phrase «help targeting voters»

Since Brexiteers and the 2016 Cruz and Trump campaigns contracted with Cambridge for help targeting voters in the UK and US, and special counsel Robert Mueller has subpeoned documents from the company in his investigation into possible Trump / Russia collusion, politicians quickly took notice.

The Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica more than $ 6 million to help it target voters through ads on Facebook.

Was the specific profile data used in any way to help target voters in the 2016 election?

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Mr. Sanni is friends with Christopher Wylie, a former research director of Cambridge Analytica who has recently provided information to journalists indicating that the company improperly obtained the data of 50 million Facebook users in order to help target voters.

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According to a new Mother Jones report, the company told the Ted Cruz campaign that a powerful software tool named Ripon could help it target voters, but that tool didn't exist.

Trump - linked data firm Cambridge Analytica harvested data on 50 million Facebook profiles to help target voters

The result was her story of how Cambridge Analytica harvested the Facebook data of 50 million US voters and used it to power software that helped target voters with personalised political advertising.

The companies collectively ran data operations for President Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign, helping him target voters on Facebook against his then - rival Clinton.

Not exact matches

But if the ongoing investigations conclude that the Trump campaign did help Russia target voters, expect to hear more about Cambridge Analytica.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

The data collected by the app reportedly was shared with Cambridge Analytica and used to help the firm build profiles of individual voters and their political preferences to better target advertising to them.

And anonymously sourced reports from McClatchy and Vanity Fair, among others, have said Mueller's team is looking into whether Trump's digital operation provided information to Russians to help them determine which American voters to target with their own digital efforts.

In that case, (relatively) cheap Google and Facebook ads can work alongside targeted cable TV spots to spread messages and help find supporters, donors and volunteers in a defined geographic area and even among a defined set of voters (previous Republican primary voters, women over 50, etc).

DSPolitical will be happy to help: «Beginning today, DSPolitical will also be making the targeting of these voters available to all Democratic candidates and progressive causes.»

Cookie - targeting and similar technologies can help campaigns get the most value out of even last - minute ads, since they're ideal for delivering GOTV messages to the voters you need to reach.

Perhaps good, despite the fears of many naysayers — targeted messages (in theory at least) help to motivate voters to act, and a more - active citizenry is healthy for democracy in the long run.

Mr. Delany added that digital advertising would help target key demographic groups of voters who will be important to either Democratic campaign for a win in California.

Having served billions of targeted voter - matched digital ads online, social media, and mobile devices over the past five years and helping to elect scores of Democrats up and down the ballot for offices ranging from senator and governor to state legislator and school board member, DSPolitical has earned a reputation as a progressive ally and committed innovator.

And the rise of campaign - tailored self - serve platforms helps candidates far down the ballot buy banner ads and even video ads targeted directly at their voters and their voters alone.

But it could help Senate candidates in battleground states target both base and independent voters, who polling shows overwhelmingly favor expanded background checks.

But they added targeted communication on the issue with white suburban swing voters, who strategists say support measures such as expanded background checks, could help drive turnout with that segment of the electorate.

Online advertising (if targeted correctly) would let them hit the right voters with the right messages through cost - effective channels, for instance, and it would also generate data (click rates, conversion rates, etc.) that would help the groups evaluate how well their messaging works with different demographics.

As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.

Candidates for virtually any public office rely on their state parties for help identifying which voters to target with phone calls, home visits and mailings.

Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's holding of targeted user data back in 2015, when the Guardian reported that the then - presidential contender Ted Cruz, who was a client of Cambridge Analytica, was targeting voters using data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge with the data firm's help.

A super PAC created by President Trump's new national security adviser John Bolton was one of the earliest U.S. clients of the now - embattled data company Cambridge Analytica, which targeted voters to help boost Bolton's national security agenda, records show.

Cambridge was also paid at least $ 6 million for the work it did helping the Trump campaign identify and target voters, finance filings show.

Clinton is set today to deliver her most targeted general election pitch yet to young voters, seeking to expand her uneven support with a group that helped elevate President Obama in 2008 and 2012 but that has often proved resistant to her overtures.

Ever since he started helping Tory candidates in target seats - when Michael Howard was Tory leader - he has become focused on ensuring resources and messages are targeted on the swing voters in the swing seats.

Beginning in August, he said, the UFT will be targeting voters in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Florida through phone - banking and sending volunteers to those battleground states to help get out the vote.

One option, they said, is to use the playbook of the national LCV, which targeted 12 anti-clean energy candidates in the general elections and helped defeat 11 of them using TV advertising and voter registration.

The firm helped the Trump campaign target voters.

Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's holding of targeted user data back in 2015, when the Guardian reported that the then - presidential contender Ted Cruz, who was a client of Cambridge Analytica, was targeting voters using data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge with the data firm's help.

Cambridge was also paid at least $ 6 million for the work it did helping the Trump campaign identify and target voters, finance filings show.

The data collected by the app reportedly was shared with Cambridge Analytica and used to help the firm build profiles of individual voters and their political preferences to better target advertising to them.

Cambridge Analytica, which also worked on Donald Trump's 2016 bid for president, used the personal information of millions of users who never gave their permission to help campaigns more effectively target voters.

Then they used this data to help the Trump and Brexit campaigns psychologically manipulate voters through targeted ads.

While the Republican National Committee provided the campaign's core voter data, those officials said, Cambridge provided personnel to the campaign and helped develop target lists for digital advertising and online fund - raising, among other tasks.

These models will be instrumental in helping the campaign determine which voters to target for turnout and persuasion efforts, where to buy advertising and how to best approach digital media.»

It aims to help political parties target voters with tailored messaging, based on information gleaned from a variety of sources.

Sometimes the abuse is malicious and opportunistic, as it was when Cambridge Analytica used an API designed to help people recommend relevant job openings to friends to purposefully harvest data that populated psychographic profiles of voters so they could be swayed with targeted messaging.

A super PAC created by President Donald Trump's new national security adviser John Bolton was one of the earliest U.S. clients of the now - embattled data company Cambridge Analytica, which targeted voters to help boost Bolton's national security agenda, records show.

According to the reports in Guardian Observer and New York Times, Facebook profiles of nearly 50 million users were illegally harvested by the political firm and helped to create algorithms and models to successfully target swing voters with false messages and political 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.

Clinton herself questioned if Cambridge Analytica helped Russian agents influence the election by targeting Facebook ads to voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin in an interview with Britain's Channel 4 News, but Trump visited those battleground states more than Clinton did.

A data leak by a company called AggregateIQ has revealed that the obscure Canadian firm developed the software Cambridge Analytica used and sold to clients during the 2016 election to help Republican campaigns target voters, security firm UpGuard revealed this week.

«All kinds of people had access to the data,» said Wylie, who helped develop Cambridge Analytica's methods for using the information to target and persuade voters.

It reportedly also helped the Leave.EU campaign - on an informal basis - with profiling and targeting voters on Facebook.