WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop
psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.
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.
WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to
develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.
WASHINGTON — The political action committee founded by John R. Bolton, President Trump's incoming national security adviser, was one of the earliest customers of Cambridge Analytica, which it hired specifically to develop
psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles, according to former Cambridge employees and company documents.
Cambridge Analytica's work, which included using Facebook data to build
psychological profiles of voters, tapped into an anxiety many Americans already had over the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
The political action committee founded by John Bolton hired Cambridge Analytica specifically to develop
psychological profiles of voters — and it knew the firm was using Facebook data.
When asked if the Commission is concerned over allegations of data being harvested to build
psychological profiles of voters to influence them, Rawat said, «Definitely.
The company has faced a backlash after using Facebook to create
psychological profiles of voters.
Lawmakers have pilloried Facebook in response to the controversy with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that aided Trump and other Republican candidates by building
psychological profiles of voters.