Sentences with phrase «which targeted voters»

A super PAC created by President Donald 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.

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

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.

Clinton only received 33 percent of the vote from the sample, which targeted voters who live in specific neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County and a few other locations around the state including the Bronx, Albany and the Hudson Valley.

Not exact matches

In September 2011, the Obama campaign launched Operation Vote, which focused on eight target groups: women, blacks, seniors, Hispanics, Asian - Americans, Jews, gays, and young voters.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Though of course, even for some local races, ethnic niche sites (for instance) might well be perfect targets — it all depends on which voters those campaigns need to reach and the relative costs of reaching them through different means.

Her staff also understand the power of online advertising to deliver specific messages to the right voters, which will work to boost turnout among groups who've been the target of Trumpian attacks.

Forward NY is specifically targeting Latino voters, which polls show is the largest group of undecided voters in the comptroller's race.

They had software on iPhones and BlackBerries that drew on their voter target list and used a volunteer's GPS location to provide a list of which doors to knock on, a script for interactions with voters and a form to fill out responses, eliminating the need for paper get - out - the - vote walk sheets.

The buys announced today are the first stage of airtime reservations in House Majority PAC's fall paid media strategy and a continuation of SEIU's voter contact program which, in recent weeks, included the launch of the union's largest and most - targeted political field campaign in the union's 91 - year history.

Winner Joe Lhota spent around $ 1.5 million overall on voter outreach, of which nearly $ 463,000 went to Target Enterprises for TV advertising and around $ 290,000 went to Target Enterprises earmarked for «cable and digital ads.»

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.

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.

A common campaign goal was to get highest concentration of ads in front of a high concentration of targets, for instance, for which zip - code targeting was often cheaper than trying to reach voters one - on - one.

The 1990s electoral tactic of announcing drastic future expenditure targets and forcing Labour to accept or reject them is designed for an electoral battleground for the swing voters in the marginal seats in contention between Labour and the Conservatives, almost all of which are in England.

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.

Another example: the recent race for an at - large city council seat in the District of Columbia, which saw a candidate using geo - targeted Google content ads to send potential voters to his NationBuilder site.

Briefly, on Oct. 6 during the candidates» first major voter forums in the town of Bedford, Killian took her own crack at Latimer's use of money, briefly targeting him and other longtime politicians for using campaign funds for what she characterizes as frivolous expenses like food and gas; expenses of which there are dozens of in Latimer's most recent disclosure.

Candidates for virtually any public office rely on their state parties for help identifying which voters to target with phone calls, home visits and mailings.

This week, the New York League of Conservation Voters debuted its list of six priority Senate races — dubbed the «six pack ``, which includes two incumbent Republicans who are among the Democrats» top targets in this year's re-match for control of the majority: Sens. Mark Grisanti and Marty Golden.

The Conservatives are using an updated form of Labour's Excalibur machine which they used to get to power in 1997 — this one called Merlin — but now combining the targeting of Excalibur with extensive polling of groups as large as 10,000 enabling the party to rapidly produce pieces of literature to snare wavering groups of voters.

Part of the work that Cambridge Analytica performed for Bolton's super PAC was psychographic voter targeting, which the company claimed could profile voters on the basis of certain characteristics.

In 2013, the Mercers became the principal investors in the data science firm Cambridge Analytica, which says it can target voters based on their personality types.

In this past cycle, they also used the latest data analysis and targeting techniques to decide which voters to contact, with key information streaming to mobile apps in the hands of canvassers going door - to - door.

But when it comes to «Broken Windows» policing (where police officers focus on low - level crimes to deter larger ones), which explains why Garner was targeted for selling loose cigarettes, voters support it.

Jag Singh, the founder of MessageSpace, which buys social media, internet and print advertising and provided services to the Conservative campaign, confirmed the Tories spent less money on Facebook ads rallying their own supporters than targeting ads at soft Labour voters.

«The Tories were advancing further into Labour territory but weren't defending their own marginals,» said Sam Jeffers, the co-founder of Who Targets Me, which tracked more than 7,000 political Facebook adverts sent to nearly 12,000 voters.

The Collective is spending upward of $ 700,000 on the ad, which is running on West Palm Beach television stations and South Florida cable networks and is clearly targeted toward Democratic base voters.

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.

which plays well into the demographics of the voter base he is targeting; many of which distrust the Government or any suitably large organisation (which can be warranted given that the US Government engineered the biggest gold theft in history from the US populace) and ongoing cultural divisions between North and South USA.

Targeting Labour voters is a key theme and grand strategy which Alex Salmond and the SNP have woven into their campaign for the next Westminster election.

Donaldson and Parete's lawsuit targets the language of the ballot measure, which they say is misleading and clearly intended to sway voters towards a «yes» vote.

By choosing Williams's show — which has a massive viewership of women age 25 to 54 — for her first national TV interview of the campaign, Nixon is signaling that she's targeting female voters.

Vici specializes in developing specific messaging and delivering content to targeted audiences which translates to voter engagement.

I suspect that they will win some of the Labour seats on their target list (and I listed the top 50 in that blog post last summer), but I'm not convinced that there will be that many: their position on Iraq marked them out from the other two parties at the last election, leading them to the high water mark they reached - but Iraq will not be an issue next year and it is hard to see which message they could put out which would resonate with voters in the same way.

The then Shadow Attorney General was accused of alienating Labour from the British public and key target voters, which left the former party leader «angry».

Of course, the Dwyer litigation's real target might have been the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights (TABOR), which requires voter approval of tax increases.

One option, they said, is to use the playbook of the national LCV, which targeted 12 anti-clean energy candidates in the general elections and helped defeat 11 of them using TV advertising and voter registration.

A group of five «flat Earther» Republican candidates who rejected the climate science were targeted by a group called the League of Conservation Voters, which said it spent $ 3 million campaigning against them.

The League of Conservation Voters, which along with other environmental campaigners spent heavily on the contest, noted that it had unseated several members of its «dirty dozen» target list.

The vast majority of voters, (81 percent) believe Los Angeles Department of Water and Power should increase production of solar energy to 1,200 megawatts, which is a tenth of the target set by Governor Jerry Brown for renewable energy in LA.

Among the great things that happened on November 4, voters ousted anti-consumer judges in major upsets by electing two chief justices and two supreme court incumbents, and re-electing the West Virginia attorney general, who has been relentlessly targeted by «tort reform» groups and attacked during the campaign by U.S. Chamber of Commerce - supported ads, which were produced by the same nice folks who brought you the famous «swift boat» spots.