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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:19 PM Mar 2018

Trumps Cambridge Analytica caught on camera boasting about bribing politicians

Executives at Cambridge Analytica, the data firm used by President Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, have been caught on camera bragging about their efforts to entrap politicians using methods such as offering bribes and liaisons with sex workers.

The United Kingdom’s Channel 4 News went undercover in Cambridge Analytica by having its reporters pose as prospective clients and caught its executives making multiple claims of illicit behavior.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/busted-trumps-cambridge-analytica-caught-camera-boasting-bribing-politicians/

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FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
4. The techniques vary -- in the video, the undercovers were posing as representatives of Sri Lankans
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:43 PM
Mar 2018

Cambridge Analytica's parent SCL has been working in lots of countries.

Part of the video is about their work on behalf of Kenyatta in Kenya to manipulate that election. Who do you think paid for that?

 

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)
7. They/re educators, bringing the dirty tricks of old democracies to all the newly democratic nations
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 07:39 PM
Mar 2018

adapted to the new digital networks being deployed globally.

 

Wwcd

(6,288 posts)
3. Open the floodgates!!! Might this lead to those murmurs of human trafficking?
Mon Mar 19, 2018, 03:38 PM
Mar 2018

Considering all that topic might bring to bribery.

So did they get all the complicit GOP on tape at one big shindig, complete with girls, drugs & booze?

Ryan, Nunes, and...barf McTurtle?

Lordy, I BET THERE ARE TAPES!

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