Sentences with phrase «targeting voters with»

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.

It uses such data to target voters with hyper - specific appeals, including on Facebook and other online services, that go well beyond traditional messaging based on party affiliation alone.

The study claimed that 80 % of the accounts were created in the weeks before polling day, and were used to target voters with key political messages during vital points in the campaign, including the aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing.

These advertisements, which targeted voters with divisive political content, added even more evidence of Russia's attempts to meddle with the election.

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

But Facebook, Twitter and Google all confirmed that their investigations have found no evidence that the Russians uploaded voter registration contact info in order to individually target voters with ads.

The information commissioner is investigating whether the firm improperly used data from some 50 million Facebook users to target voters with ads and political messages

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.

CA then used it to predict voting patterns for the 2016 US presidential election, and target voters with highly specific advertising.

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Cambridge Analytica is being scrutinized for the methods it used during the 2016 presidential election, after executives with the British data firm boasted about their ability to covertly target voters, entrap politicians, and launch propaganda campaigns.

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.

And according to a top - secret National Security Agency document leaked to the Intercept and published earlier this month, hackers associated with Russia's military intelligence agency targeted a company with information on US voting software days before the election and used the data to launch «voter - registration - themed» cyberattacks on local government officials.

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.

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

The goal, as The Guardian reported, was to combine social media's reach with big data analytical tools to create psychographic profiles that could then be manipulated in what Bannon and Cambridge Analytica investor Robert Mercer allegedly referred to as a military - style psychological operations campaign — targeting U.S. voters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In a later section, on demographic distribution analysis, the contract mentions the possibility for additional «targeted data collection procedures through multiple platforms» to be used — even including «brief phone scripts with single - trait questions» — in order to correct any skews that might be found once the Facebook data is matched with voter databases in each state, (and assuming any «data gaps» could not be «filled in from targeted online samples», as it also puts it).

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.

For many, the Cambridge Analytica data is seen as likely connected to the Russian troll farms that targeted U.S. voters with misinformation via social media during the 2016 campaign.

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.

Those systemic problems have dramatically worsened since the presidential election, with Facebook coming under intense fire on multiple fronts: Russian operatives using Facebook to manipulate voter sentiment during the presidential election, Facebook accounts spreading «fake» news, the potential for its advertising system to be used for racist targeting and its slow response to violent or harmful content on the platform.

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.

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.

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

As with most Molotov - tossing, it's not clear what the target is or how much damage voters can inflict.

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.»

We recommend targeting gullible voters and influencers with fake articles on Facebook in order to boost the reputation of the American Athletic Conference.

Chris Cillizza and Jim VandeHei have a great article in today's Post, «In Ohio, a Battle of Databases,» that looks in detail at how campaigns work with data behind the scenes to find voters, hit them with targeted messages and ultimately get them to the polls.

Not much, compared with the demographic or voter - file targeted banner and video ads that money could.

Where else can you sit down with a data nerd who just ran a voter - targeting program in Denver, or some college kid who just coordinated a tech - enabled field operation in Raleigh?

For one thing, television ads remain the best way to reach uncommitted / marginally aware voters, since they're not paying attention to politics online and hence are hard to target with political content.

Often a more effective way to use a large budget is to work with a firm like DS Political that does voter - file targeted display ads.

The best answer seems to be a combination of targeted and untargeted outreach: online communicators can use a sharpshooting approach when appropriate, delivering targeted messages and ads to particular voters and connecting personally with chosen bloggers, Twitter enthusiasts and journalists.

Got a large budget but not enough time to work with an outside vendor for voter - file targeted display ads?

The people Nuttall is hoping to target — long - term Labour voters who're dissatisfied with the current state of affairs and looking for change — are unlikely to feel particularly fondly about his reheated Thatcherism.

In the end, DSPolitical was able to reach more than 150,000 voters in key targeted constituencies with nearly 10 million pre-roll video and banner ad impressions.

We were there with a simple mission: sell the idea of working with DSPolitical to launch the first voter file targeted digital ad campaign in British political history.

Political campaigns typically use search advertising primarily for long - term list - building, but with a big chunk of February 5th voters apparently still undecided, shouldn't targeted search ads be an effective way to reach people who are still making up their minds?

If voters in the United Kingdom weren't accustomed to encountering campaign ads on television and the radio, how would they respond to such communications when targeted with banner ads and videos online and on their mobile devices?

Direct mail, targeted cable tv buys and niche radio ads are all good ways to concentrate resources on reaching particular voters with particular messages.

The willingness of our first - time U.K. clients to work with DSPolitical to conduct a targeted, voter - matched digital advertising campaign — even on a limited scale — should put other democracies on notice that such innovative new voter engagement techniques are on the way.