Christopher Wylie: Bannon wanted "weapons" to fight a "culture war" at Cambridge Analytica

[orangecrush]

During the three-hour-long hearing, Wylie provided new details into the firm's more controversial practices, including discussions of voter suppression, targeting African-American voters, and testing of slogans in 2014 that would be later used throughout the Trump campaign in 2016.

Read Wylie's testimony here
The whistleblower told lawmakers that former vice president of Cambridge Analytica and Trump ally Steve Bannon, "saw cultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics."

"The company learned that were segments of the population that responded to messages like 'drain the swamp' or images of walls or indeed paranoia about the deep state that weren't necessarily reflected in mainstream polling or mainstream political discourse that Steve Bannon was interested in to help build his movement," Wylie told lawmakers. He said that under Bannon's leadership at Cambridge Anlaytica, U.S. clients could request testing voter suppression efforts in their contracts.

"Steve Bannon is a follower of something called the 'Breitbart doctrine' which posits that politics is downstream from culture. So if you want any lasting or enduring changes in politics you have to focus on the culture. When Steve Bannon uses the term culture war, he uses that term pointedly and they were seeking out companies that could build an arsenal of informational weapons to fight that war," he added.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbsnews.com/amp/live-news/senate-cambridge-analytica-whistleblower-christopher-wylie-live-stream-updates-today-2018-05-16/


So looking forward to a Bannon indictment.

[ck4829]

1. So what were these weapons? Let's turn them back on Breitbart.

[orangecrush]

2. the "weapons" are antithetical to democracy

and should be destroyed, and their creators imprisoned.