CA began testing out pro-DT slogans as Russia launched its influence 2014 targeting 2016 elections

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Cambridge Analytica began testing out pro-Trump slogans the same year Russia launched its influence operation targeting the 2016 election


The Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica began testing out slogans like "Drain the Swamp" and "Build the Wall" the same year Russia began its social media influence operation targeting the 2016 election.
Cambridge Analytica has denied any links to Russian entities or individuals.
The firm attracted scrutiny when a whistleblower said Cambridge Analytica executives met with executives of a sanctioned Russian oil producer in 2014 and 2015 to discuss politically targeting messages toward American voters.
Cambridge Analytica executives were also secretly filmed boasting about how they used shadowy online propaganda tools to help Donald Trump win the 2016 US election.

http://www.businessinsider.fr/uk/cambridge-analytica-trump-russia-ties-2018-3

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1. Cambridge Analytica has denied any links to Russian entities or individuals.

Liars !!

Kogan is also an associate professor at the St Petersburg University – a fact his Cambridge colleagues, aside from the head of the Department of Psychology, were not told, according to The Guardian/Observer. In this position, he received funding from the Russian government to study ‘Stress, health and psychological wellbeing in social networks’. In a CV from 2014, which was previously available on the University’s website, Kogan made no mention of his connection to St Petersburg, or to having received any grants.

https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/15192

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5. Konstantin Rykov might differ with that opinion. nt

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3. Excerpt from OP-

"We were testing all kinds of messages and all kinds of imagery, which included images of walls, people scaling walls," Christopher Wylie, a former employee at Cambridge Analytica, told CNN. "We tested 'drain the swamp' ... ideas of the deep state and the NSA watching you and the government is conspiring against you."

"And a lot of these narratives, which at the time would have seemed crazy for a mainstream candidate to run on, those were the things that we were finding that there were pockets of Americans who this really appealed to," Wylie added.

Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist and Trump campaign CEO, sat on the data firm's board of directors, which is largely backed by Republican megadonor Robert Mercer.

Wylie said Monday that Bannon's push for the Trump campaign to endorse far-right positions on issues like immigration and law enforcement largely stemmed from Cambridge Analytica's research on those topics.

The Trump campaign hired Bannon in the summer of 2016. Around the same time, it also tapped Cambridge Analytica to manage its data operation.

A Trump aide told Wired that the firm played a "key role" in identifying political donors that helped them raise $80 million in July 2016."

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