Sentences with phrase «target voters by»

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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.

Among white voters, roughly three in 10 said they had been targeted by Trump get - out - the - vote efforts; the same share said they had been targeted by Clinton.

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.

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).

Facebook has faced a global outcry and sharp questions about its privacy safeguards after reports revealed that an independent researcher passed information covering some 50m users to the consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, which were then used by Donald Trump's campaign team to target swing voters in the 2016 presidential election.

Though the users were assured that this information was gathered for academic research, but the data was leveraged by Cambridge Analytica to target and influence voters with specific personality types.

Bloomberg discovered that the Trump campaign sought to depress Hillary Clinton's voter turnout by targeting African - American voters with a South Park - style animation that said: «Hillary Thinks African Americans are Super Predators.»

CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)-- Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

By 2014, if you weren't cookie targeting a voter file, you were doing it wrong.

Seats would be won by convincing voters across the constituency, not just targeting action at a few swing voters.

Instead, they could target voters and potential donors more effectively using the information they gathered by actually running Facebook ads and measuring the results.

Nuttall was elected Ukip leader in a landslide victory yesterday, and immediately vowed to «replace the Labour party and make Ukip the voice of patriotic Britain» by targeting working class voters.

This technology is now widely used by digital political advertisers to reach voters with highly targeted messaging, particularly within the tight geographic boundaries of congressional and legislative districts.

Second, the more optimistic one outlined by Peter Wielhouwer in the early 2000s, suggesting that more sophisticated targeting would also allow campaigns to identify more voters it makes sense to talk to and try to motivate, and thus expand the electorate as more people are turned out to vote.

The Associated Press unveiled a new project to supplant traditional exit polling — beginning with the 2018 midterm elections — by combining traditional, probability - based polling with an online, opt - in survey of voters in targeted states.

First, the pessimistic one outlined by Marshall Ganz in the early 1990s, suggesting that ever more precise targeting of voters will narrow the electorate by leading campaigns to focus their efforts on fewer and fewer people leaving others outside the process.

By targeting the forgotten generation rent — estimated to include around 9m people — Labour is making a bid to reclaim the left - behind voters whom UKIP is so assiduously targeting.

Sen. John McCain, R - Ariz., 5th term McCain is entering his third decade in the Senate, but with a presidential race at the top of the ticket, Arizona will likely be targeted by national Democrats this year who would offer organizational support to drive voters to the polls.

The new commercial by a pro-McCain group, A Secure Arizona, will target Republican primary voters on air and online as the fifth - term lawmaker attempts to define his race on the issue of national security and fend off primary opponents in a contest that already features former state Sen. Kelli Ward.

The 74 - year - old senator's success, including his upset victory in the Michigan primary last week, has been fueled by his appeal to younger voters, who so far have resisted Clinton's efforts to reach out to them through targeted TV ads and an increased focus on issues such as student debt.

It stands accused of harvesting Facebook user data to profile voters that that were ultimately targeted by the Trump campaign, which spent over $ 6 million on information obtained by the firm.

With conservative strategist Steve Bannon playing a founding role, backed by money from billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, the firm was able to develop data from 50 million Facebook users into a psychologically - based strategy to target voters.

The Trump campaign paid Cambridge Analytica more than $ 6 million to target Facebook ads based on voter data it had collected in the run - up to the election, according to Federal Election Commission records cited by Reuters.

The interesting angle from our point of view was the part — reported early by Yahoo News — that urges the party to create a data infrastructure to power the kind of voter targeting at which the Obama campaign (among others) has excelled.

At the same time, they can be building up data on the electorate by talking to voters one - on - one and developing technologies and procedures to use that data to target their outreach efficiently, effectively and repeatedly.

The NY - 27, represented by Rep. Kathy Hochul, is a top target for the national Republican Party, which sees the Democratic victory in a special election an exception, not a rule, for the deeply conservative upstate voters.

Manhattan Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh, who sits on the Assembly's Election Law Committee, said Trump's comments are discouraging in light of the fact that there are federal courts across the country with judges appointed by Republicans and Democrats saying that states» voter laws are unconstitutional because they target people based on their race and ethnicity.

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.

I'm just back from traveling through Texas and Louisiana, and it's always great to come home to an article as full of fun as this one: New Scientist reports from an e-crime summit in Pittsburg that in the coming years, «voters will increasingly be targeted by internet - based dirty tricks campaigns, and that the perpetrators will find it easier to cover their tracks.»

During the 2013 primary season, voters received a series of campaign attack ads in the mail apparently targeting candidates endorsed by the Erie County Democratic Committee, including county legislators Tim Hogues and Grant.

In the opinion of CADA, election threats come in different forms and may include intimidation, registering minors and foreigners, multiple registration, etc. during voter registration exercise or targeting of election officials, intimidation or harassment of journalists, incitement to violence in the media or public, protecting, expanding, or delineating turf or «no - go areas», attacks on election rallies or candidates, intimidation of voters to compel them to vote or stay away, physical attacks on election materials such as snatching and destruction of ballot boxes, armed clashes among political parties, violent clashes among groups of rival supporters, vandalism and physical attacks on property of opponents, targeted attacks against specific candidates or political parties, attacks on rivals who have either won in elections or were defeated, violent street protests and efforts by armed police to maintain or restore order, tear gas, firing on protestors, attacks by protestors on property or the police, escalation and perpetuation of ethnic or sectarian violence.

I'm just back from traveling through Texas and Louisiana, and it's always great to come home to an article as full of fun as this one: New Scientist reports from an e-crime summit in Pittsburg that in the coming years, «voters will increasingly be targeted by internet - based...

Despite rules disallowing the explicit targeting of voters by their political party, there are creative ways to get literature into the hands of a politician's most - likely voters, according to multiple former legislative staffers.

The supporters wrote that as a result of Knapp's «staunch defense of voter rights and advocacy for Democratic ideals, she has been targeted time and again by the powerful Republican machine here in Dutchess County.»

Empowered by his experience, Watch hopes to organize the club by setting the agenda on a path to target voters who may not have ever been invited to a political club.

In Lib Dem target seats Labour voters were far more likely to vote tactically against the Conservatives than against the Liberals by a margin of about 4 - 1.

We did it by focusing on a narrow communications and voter contact program governed by the targeting.

There are some complications because some 2012 voters have died in the intervening four years and been replaced by younger voters who tend to be more Democratic, but life tables can be used to adjust the 2012 vote targets to reflect differential mortality.

Labour's drive to register new voters ahead of the election has not had an impact in other targets - the number of voters registered in Newcastle - under - Lyme, a key Tory target, has actually fallen by more than 2,000 since 2015.

The strategic judgment must be, that while he is unlikely to hit his chosen target of reducing net migration levels to «tens of thousands» by 2015, his policies will have made enough of a dent that voters will feel that, in contrast to the other two parties, at least the Conservatives tried.

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.

For instance, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio — who is targeting same sorts of progressive activist and outer borough voters that Mr. Weiner could be aiming for — said his strategy wouldn't be altered by a Weiner candidacy.

Precision, the new firm founded by three top Obama campaign staffers, can offer clients their hard - won expertise but not the data or algorithms that the president's team used to target voters.

Spending on digital advertising can go even further, with social media ads that can target social media sites used by likely voters who campaigns and super PACs want to reach.

Many of the media outlets targeted by the Trump administration are labelled as liberal which is a term used in the USA a pejorative by non-liberal voters.

The Daily News and the New York Times reported that Sugarman took up her investigation after complaints were filed by Republican voters in Senate districts targeted by de Blasio's efforts.