Sentences with phrase «of target voters»

Perhaps the party is so far ahead that it doesn't matter that 55 % of target voters think David Cameron is lightweight?

This will be classic campaign door - knocking: after a brief orientation, volunteers will be sent out in pairs with a list of target voters.

Everyone's been in Kentucky Boneless Chicken mode since I soft - polled a bunch of target voters on recognition issues and just over 70 % of them thought Ed Balls was EWAN MCGREGOR»S DAD.

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If CA had been able to hand the Trump communications team a detailed psychographic assessment of every targeted voter, the practical response would have been a bit like Henry Ford's old comment: «The customer can have any color he wants so long as it's black.»

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Collins asked why Facebook didn't spot Russia's use of the social network to target voters sooner.

Some of these ads targeted voters in swing states, like Michigan and Wisconsin.

The app cut ties with Cambridge Analytica in Mexico after the British company was accused by a whistleblower of improperly accessing data to target US and British voters in recent elections.

Advocates hope voters target lawmakers who have pushed for measures that hurt immigrants and replace them with immigrant - friendly policymakers, said Angelica Salas, executive director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.

Cambridge Analytica is under investigation in both the U.S. and the U.K. for the way it obtained data on as many as 87 million users from Facebook and for whether it used that data to target voters on behalf of the Trump campaign in the U.S. and the Brexit referendum in the U.K.

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign said on Friday it had been the target of a «massive» computer hack that dumped its campaign mails online 1-1/2 days before voters go to the polls to choose between the centrist and his far - right rival Marine Le Pen.

In March 2018, news surfaced of a data breach that resulted in data of about 50 million Facebook users getting into the hands of voter - targeting consultancy Cambridge Analytica.

«But I can't imagine more than two - thirds of voters in San Francisco thinking that our city government should be introducing measures that will cost local jobs and spitefully target one industry.»

Stewart's cable news targets include a CNN reporter who asserted that a loss for Scott Walker would be «one of the worst indignities for an election official,» and a Fox News host who asked a Wisconsin voter to compare the recall election to her experience living in communist China.

Masses of data about each voter's political tendencies - gathered through public sources and through campaign contact - allowed Obama for America (OFA) to target voters more precisely than ever before.

That scandal involved how the data of 87 million Facebook users was scraped and used as a psychological weapon to target voters.

Denise Feriozzi, deputy executive director for Emily's List, said that millennial women are a «hugely powerful group of voters,» and that the ad campaigns are specifically targeted toward building long - term support through brands and outlets that they identify with.

But the exposed database combined people's personal information and political inclinations — including proprietary information gathered via predictive modeling tools — to create a detailed profile of nearly 200 million Americans that would be a «gold mine» for anyone looking to target and manipulate voters, said Archie Agarwal, the founder of the cybersecurity firm ThreatModeler.

WASHINGTON — Under fire for his connections to a voter - targeting firm that used data taken from 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz insisted Tuesday that he was unaware of any impropriety.

Michael Zimmer, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, where he specialises in privacy and internet ethics, described this as a «particularly problematic» kind of voter targeting that raised broader concerns in the US about «packaging voters like they're consumers».

It's entirely possible that such collusion could have occurred and the work of Cambridge Analytica had nothing to do with it; however, that would be strange, since targeting voters is precisely what the company was hired to do.

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.

Through utilizing their vast troves of existing data on individual voters, constructing highly advanced data models, and prioritizing voters by their likelihood to vote and feelings of favorability towards each candidate, Cambridge Analytica created a unique «principal audience» of voters to target.

Most of all, so what if voters were being «targeted»?

As Cambridge Analytica's actions revealed, those groups will use data for startling purposes — such as targeting very specific groups of voters with highly customized messages — even if it means violating the policies and professed intentions of one of the most powerful corporations on the planet.

But Zeynep Tufekci of the University of North Carolina argues that targeting voters with ever more personalised messages will shrink the «public sphere», which Jürgen Habermas, a German philosopher, once defined as the basis of democracy.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The data was acquired and processed by Cambridge University professor Aleksandr Kogan whose personality quiz app, running on Facebook's platform in 2014, was able to harvest personal data on tens of millions of users (a subset of which Kogan turned into psychological profiles for CA to use for targeting political messaging at US voters).

Government action to influence the price of goods might strike Canadians as out of place in the Conservative playbook but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories are acutely concerned about dispelling the notion they're the party of «big business» as they target middle - class voters.

We should sue Cambridge Analytica to take back control of our data from the company, which compiled complex profiles of 50 million Americans and used them to target voters.

As is now famous, the company harvested the Facebook data of 50 million Americans that it obtained via a third - party app, and used it to target voters.

CA, which has touted its ability to create personality profiles of voters for ad targeting purposes, was hired to run data operations for the Trump campaign.

In another section on the political campaign page, Facebook states for $ 1, candidates could buy two pieces of direct mail, or they could target 200 voters on Facebook.

The latest allegations — that a Trump campaign consulting firm with Russian connections used improperly obtained Facebook data on tens of millions of Americans to target voters — raise disturbing questions about the roles of both Facebook and Russia.

With regards to the Facebook scandal specifically, Cambridge Analytica are accused of harvesting personal data from 50million Facebook profiles, data which was then used to psychologically profile victims to drive advertising campaigns, targeted at voters in the US elections.

That's the question many Americans are asking after revelations that a data - mining firm working for the Trump campaign improperly got its hands on the personal information of tens of millions of Facebook users and created detailed profiles that were used to target unsuspecting voters in the presidential election.

And the real question is, how did the Russians know how to target their messages so precisely to undecided voters in Wisconsin or Michigan or Pennsylvania — that is really the nub of the question,» Clinton said in the interview.

Revenues continue to fall short of targets, while the government appears to need to grant hand - outs or tax concessions to various categories of voters every year.

A personality research app he created gathered the personal information on 270,000 Facebook users, as well as data on those users» friends, amplifying the reach to the tens of millions when it passed that data to Cambridge for a voter targeting scheme.

India's information technology minister last week warned against any abuse of social media in elections, following reports that the analytics firm improperly accessed information on millions of Facebook users to target U.S. voters.

The poll of 1,011 likely voters was conducted April 10 - 13, although the poll methodology does not indicate if any of the responses were collected after the president announced airstrikes against Syrian targets in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack.

The consultancy is accused of using online data to create voter personality profiles to target users with personalized political advertisements.

Russian agents abused the company's systems to target millions of American voters with disinformation during the 2016 election.

Multiple investigations later, it's become pretty clear that the deluge of disinformation targeted to U.S. voters on social media did have an effect, from online acrimony to real - world protests.

On Facebook, advertisers can upload lists of voters and supporters to target specific users as well as «lookalike» users who share similar demographics and traits.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg takes his seat after a break to continue to testify before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election.

The investigation is part of a broader probe, launched last year, into how political parties are using data analytics to target voters.

Unfortunately, we don't yet know the extent of the harm, as is obvious from the news that Russians ads on Facebook targeted voters in Michigan and Wisconsin.

The world's largest social network had already been the target of lawmakers who say it hadn't done enough to inform the public about Russian operatives using its ad platform to sway U.S. voters.