Nix and two of his colleagues described a variety of underhanded methods they could use to influence elections, including but not limited to staging, filming and publishing fake bribery or sex worker stings against opponents, using former spies to conduct intelligence - gathering on political foes and various shades of
online voter profiling.
Not exact matches
Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «psychographic»
profiling, meaning they use data collected
online to create personality
profiles for
voters.
In doing this we used a suite of models produced by the data science team, which outlined
profiles such as undecided
voters or inactive supporters, and matched these audiences to
online cookies, mobile devices, and social IDs.
Cambridge Analytica specializes in what's called «psychographic»
profiling, meaning it uses data collected
online to create personality
profiles for
voters.
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 consultancy is accused of using
online data to create
voter personality
profiles to target users with personalized political advertisements.
Cambridge Analytica specializes in using
online data to create
voter personality
profiles in order to target users with political messages and ran data operations for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Cambridge Analytica, a firm that specializes in using
online data to create
voter personality
profiles in order to target users with political messages, ran data operations for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
Washington Post
online politics reporter Jose Antonio Vargas wrote over the weekend on the Obama campaign's use of niche social networking sites for
voter outreach: And as of Friday, he's the first candidate to have
profiles on BlackPlanet.com and MiGente.com, popular soc - nets in the...
So you'll also be asked to enter data into VoteBuilder, the Democratic Party's digital
voter file, whether you have a smart phone to keep in touch with the campaign, to do distributed phone banking from home via an
online integrated platform, and to lend data and
profile updates from your social networking
profiles (Facebook, Twitter, etc) to the campaign.
Why, after British journalists exposed in 2015 that the presidential campaign of Sen. Ted Cruz targeted
voters online using the resulting 40 million - plus psychological
profiles — acquired by the firm Cambridge Analytica, backed by megadonor Robert Mercer — Facebook did not follow through on a pledge to ensure the data destroyed.
Cambridge Analytica, a firm that specializes in using
online data to create
voter personality
profiles in order to target users with political messages, ran data operations for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
And now, thanks to a whistleblower and two stunning reports in the Observer and the New York Times, we know that one of those developers siphoned data on more than 50 million Facebook users and shared them with the Trump campaign's
voter targeting firm, Cambridge Analytica — a company that has bragged it has psychological
profiles on 230 million American
voters, which it uses to target people
online with emotionally precise digital messaging to influence elections.
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.
Building psychographic
profiles of individual
voters based on their lifestyles and preferences could be hugely powerful, thinks Chris Sumner, research director at the
Online Privacy Foundation.
«Ads targeted using
profiles generated from individual
voters» stated interests are more successful in shifting attitudes according to
Online Privacy Foundation
Why this matters: Cambridge Analytica, which the Washington Post describes as «specializing in using
online data to create
voter personality
profiles,» was used by the Trump campaign during his run to the White House in 2016.
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.
Cambridge Analytica, a firm specializing in using
online data to create
voter personality
profiles in order to target them with political messages, ran data operations for Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
In 2014, Cambridge Analytica, a
voter -
profiling company that would later provide services for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, reached out with a request on Amazon's «Mechanical Turk» platform, an
online marketplace where people around the world contract with others to perform various tasks.
The firm, London - based Cambridge Analytica, claims to be able to sway
voters through careful
profiling of
online platforms and crafted social media messaging.