North Carolina GOP previously hired Cambridge Analytica

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

The North Carolina Republican party and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) paid the controversial British data firm Cambridge Analytica $345,000 for a direct mail campaign and consulting work, the News & Observer reported Monday.

Cambridge Analytica, which the Trump campaign used during the 2016 election, has recently come under fire after reports that it illegally obtained the private Facebook profiles of 50 million people, but there is no indication that the firm used any data from the breach in their work with the North Carolina Republicans.

The firm consulted Tillis on his successful 2014 campaign.

Dallas Woodhouse, the state’s GOP executive director, said the firm did not work on social media for the party and that the party does not plan to hire them again.



Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/379244-north-carolina-gop-previously-hired-cambridge-analytica

[TeamPooka]

1. Tillis and the NC GOP is dirty. Now we will Dig and follow the money.

[GaryCnf]

2. You have to hate the lawyerspeak

"the firm did not work on social media"

No, CA just fed the GOP with millions of psychological profiles of North Carolinians that the GOP then used to design traditional advertising to manipulate them. It's not like you need Facebook to manipulate people once you know their vulnerabilities.

[hedda_foil]

3. You need to do more reading on how the info was used to target individuali propaganda thru Facebook.

Not ads but fake news stories designed to appeal to your precise hopes and fears with links to Breitbart et al. That's where the Russian trolls currently under indictment came in.

[GaryCnf]

5. That and more

But when you have the amount of information they stole, the power you have isn't just through the web.

Good point.

[riversedge]

4. The trump @GOP sewer gets more stinky

[Nitram]

6. It will be very interesting as we find out who worked with CA.

And very uncomfortable for those who did to be exposed.

[lagomorph777]

7. Anybody who takes #NRAROUBLES or pays Cambridge Analytica should be targeted

and called out constantly for illegal campaigning and treason.

[CRK7376]

8. Of Course my state would hire CA....sigh

On the other hand maybe NC will catch a break along the same lines as Pennsylvania and their gerrymandered districts getting shut down by the Supremes..... NC is also in court over our screwed up districts....