Cambridge Analytica helped Republicans in Colorado win control of state Senate in 2014

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Source: Denver Post

Cambridge Analytica helped Republicans in Colorado win control of state Senate in 2014

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Cambridge Analytica used Facebook data to create psychographic profiles that allowed Republican operatives to target specific Colorado voters in battleground state Senate districts in 2014.

A former employee of a Trump-affiliated data-mining firm, Cambridge Analytica, says it used algorithms that took fake news to the next level using data inappropriately obtained from Facebook.

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Senate Majority Fund used the data to craft six mailers in 2014, but its not clear how much the fund paid the firm. Cambridge Analytica is not listed in the Colorado political committees state campaign finance records or in federal nonprofit filings.

The company backed by Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor, and tied to Donald Trumps political adviser Steve Bannon is facing investigations in the United Kingdom and United States after it obtained the information from a Russian-American academic researcher.

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Just came through on my alerts. Will update as the story is posted.

[LisaM]

1. The Mercers again.

Rebekah Mercer was conveniently married to a Russian banker.

https://narativ.org/2017/08/20/politics-of-greed/

Mercer’s funds have always had close connections to Russia – both in staffing and business. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, many of Russia’s top scientists fled the country to find cushy jobs in the U.S., and some of them landed at Mercer’s funds. In 2003, two of them, Pavel Volfbeyn and Alexander Belopolsky, departed the company. Insiders at the fund were caught by surprise when another Russian, Alexey Kononenko, was elevated over them. “People with knowledge of the firm say Kononenko’s promotion was a significant event in Renaissance’s history and that the Russian had actually executed a power play,” according to Bloomberg.

Very little is known about how Renaissance makes so much money, but it has a Midas touch like no other, making money in good times and bad. It operates quantum trading computers programmed by some of the world’s most brilliant scientists, many of whom are Russian. That means machines do all the trading based on algorithms, executing millions of trades in milliseconds. They can drive the stock market up and down with very little, if any, human interference. The machines place bets on whether prices will go up or down and make profit when their bets are right.

[RandomAccess]

2. This needs to be its own OP

Unbelievable. Everyone Trump & the Republicans know has Russian connections.

[DeminPennswoods]

3. A bit off topic, but

the US needs to establish markets that mirror the public markets, but are strictly for betting and who are not allowed to buy or sell actual stocks. The people who like betting on stock prices can have at it with no impact on anyone but themselves.

[stuffmatters]

4. In Co Gardener's US Senate win (as Johnson's in Wi) always reeked too

Both Feingold & Udall defeats appeared to be fixed to me. Both very popular Senators compared to the RW stooges who supposedly defeated them. I hope these investigations into CA corrupting past elections continue, especially those that made no sense in the last few years.