Cambridge Analytica ran voter suppression campaigns, whistleblower claims
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)The whistleblower whose disclosures about Cambridge Analytica shook the tech world over questions about users' data privacy told Congress on Wednesday that the company engaged in efforts to discourage or suppress voting.
Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica employee who blew the whistle on its alleged misuse of Facebook data, told the Senate Judiciary Committee that the company offered services to discourage voting from targeted sections of the American population.
"Mr. Bannon sees cultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics. It was for this reason Mr. Bannon engaged SCL (Cambridge Analytica's parent company), a foreign military contractor, to build an arsenal of informational weapons he could deploy on the American population," Wylie claimed, referring to Trump's former top political adviser Steve Bannon.
Wylie did not provide specific evidence of voter suppression campaigns taking place in the US. But when asked by Sen. Chris Coons, D-Delaware, if one of Bannon's "goals was to suppress voting or discourage certain individuals in the US from voting," Wylie replied, "That was my understanding, yes."
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NOMOGOP
(87 posts)Wi., Pa, Mi. had not voted Republikkkan since 1984. Now we are to believe ALL OF THEM voted Republikkkan? Even Wi. voter ID law, which disallowed a couple hundred thousand voters from accessing the polls, it still doesn't seem possible. I have maintained since the beginning: Vote totals were changed. Voter registration records were screwed with. The Republikkkan PARTY was involved.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)I have no doubt.
BigmanPigman
(51,644 posts)and they are just as determined to have their agendas accomplished one way or another.
Rachel is covering this story tonight.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)That's why they've made it their life's work to never have another fair election again. The GOP: Subverting the will of the American people since 1960.
BigmanPigman
(51,644 posts)It is the only govt that I am familiar with...that sucks for me but even more so for those who are older and know how it could be different because they experienced it before it went off the rails.
Gothmog
(145,722 posts)joshcryer
(62,279 posts)Even less surprising were the useful idiots who fell for it.
AA posters here were under voracious attack for the duration of that campaign.