THE NRA USED CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA FOR 2016 'TRIGGER THE VOTE' CAMPAIGN

[pnwmom]

Source: Newsweek

In the wake of revelations that the data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested millions of Facebook users' personal information to help elect Donald Trump as president, a report that the National Rifle Association also teamed up with the firm to help block Hillary Clinton from the White House in 2016 has resurfaced.

The NRA's ties to Cambridge Analytica were buried in a September 2016 Guardian story that detailed the gun group's eagerness to see Clinton defeated and deny her the opportunity to fill a vacant Supreme Court seat. It's also one strand in a web of Trump-NRA relationships.

Cambridge Analytica worked with a Washington, D.C.-based consulting company, The Herald Group, to promote the NRA's "Trigger the Vote," aimed at registering voters and getting them to the polls. The London-based analytics firm is also partly owned by Robert Mercer, an American billionaire hedge fund manager and Trump's top campaign donor—he donated more than $15 million to Trump's election, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political spending. Mercer is also a lifetime NRA member, according to the Guardian.

The Guardian story resurfaced after The New York Times revealed Cambridge Analytica used personal information from 50 million Facebook users to target pro-Trump and anti-Clinton ads during the presidential race. It is not clear if the NRA's campaign also used information from those Facebook profiles.

Read more: http://www.newsweek.com/nra-cambridge-analytica-donald-trump-2016-election-campaign-857458

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I wonder who else used Cambridge Analytica. Any Russian billionaires?

[Initech]

1. I wonder if CA was used in Italy, Turkey, France, the Philipenes, Brexit and so on?

If so they could be tried for treason in multiple countries. They need to go down in flames!

[ffr]

3. Let's hope someone in power has C.A. in their crosshairs.

[Initech]

4. There totally seems to be a pattern emerging in all these countries.

- Rise of racism
- Rise of anti-Semitism
- Shift of power in a very far right direction
- Far right leaders who love Nazi Germany running for high office
- Increase in violent behavior
- Increase in violent behavior targeted at certain races

And it has hit all of those countries. Someone has to be behind this, I'm sure it's Putin, but I also wonder if CA is connected to Putin.

[ffr]

5. Would be consistent with the cesspool these rat-f-ckers dwell in.

Morally bankrupt.

[ffr]

2. It's like a building wave. This conspiracy against the United States just gets deeper by the day.

[erronis]

6. Of course the Mercers used CA/bacefook data - they practically own these companies and the NRA

Isn't why they invested so heavily in CA and bf? It wasn't for the common weal....

I don't know if Rackel Mercer can have children but I hope that all of the plutocrats that are intent on destroying this country and democracy, if they have spawn, that these children take up the call of civil courage against the tyrants.

[volstork]

7. Verrrrry interesting...

[backtoblue]

8. Wow.

These people/companies are trying to undermine and destroy our democracy!!!!

[backtoblue]

9. Kickin

[Farmer-Rick]

10. You would think an American billionaire would be grateful for the opportunities

They received from our democracy. But no they hate it. They have gotten all the rewards this society can give, and they want to destroy the society that gave it to them. And have been pretty successful at turning it into a bizzaro combination of hate and wealth worship. As if only a god gave them this wealth and not a human democratic society.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. They think it's all their own doing. Hard work and all that jazz.

Yeah, and probably 'god' too.

[Amaryllis]

12. Probably the whole hive of skum and villany used it. They are like the Borg on Star Trek. One Brain.

[BigmanPigman]

13. Even Bolton gave a pro NRA speech in 2013

to people affiliated with Russia. Everyone is in on this...except perhaps Barron.