What is Cambridge Analytica Accused of Meddling in Nigerian Elections?
Cambridge Analytica, a British political consulting company, is notorious for its role in election campaigns all around the world. The firm came to prominence through data leakage scandal with Facebook* that erupted in 2018. Since then, its scandalous business practices are becoming public with more details being revealed over time.
Earlier, media outlets published extensive reports with leaked emails and undercover footage of the practices Cambridge Analytica and its partners used during the presidential campaign in Nigeria in 2015. The reports exposed the company's "dark arts of political persuasion" aimed at discrediting Muhammadu Buhari and getting then-President Goodluck Jonathan re-elected. Among other things, it included hacking techniques to access social media accounts and gain insight information to use it against a political opponent.
As the world is now witnessing a new wave of accusations against the notorious company, and previously unknown details are revealed, Sputnik decided to shed light on the background information of Cambridge Analytica, how it was founded, its functions and activities, how it operated through the years and what exactly it was accused of.
What is Cambridge Analytica?
Cambridge Analytica was a private company that offered its services to businesses and political parties seeking to influence audience behavior. It used data mining technologies from various sources, including social media platforms and its own surveys, to develop strategic communications for online PR campaigns. It analyzed huge amounts of consumer data and applied to it behavioral science to identify those individuals who can be targeted with marketing material.
With its headquarters in London, the firm emerged in 2013 as an offshoot of another British company called SCL Group (formerly Strategic Communication Laboratories), which offered similar services around the world. The firm's original remit was to participate in US political campaigns.
As it was a part of SCL Group, it shared some of its directors. The main player was Alexander Nix, chief executive of both SCL and Cambridge Analytica UK. After studying at Manchester University and working in corporate finance, Nix joined the group in 2003 and subsequently developed the political arm of the business.
Cambridge Analytica’s founder later explained that it had beencreated "to fill the vacuum in the US Republican political market."
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I posted a few links, in a bread yesterday afternoon, about train sabotage. Particularly of interest was the Antifa angle of sabotage whereby they would purportedly pour concrete on the tracks to cause derailment(s). They were suspected to be behind a couple derailments in Washington.
I also included links to train sabotages in Russia, which Russian authorities are saying these are the work of Ukrainian groups.
In any case, there are apparently multiple ways to sabotage trains. In an eerie “coincidence”, the East Palestine, Ohio derailment is very similar to a plot in the Netflix movie “White Noise”. Even moar eerie, one of the extras in that movie is from East Palestine and they have interviewed him and he says something along the lines of “life imitating art”. I looked this dude up (Ben Ratner) and found his Twitter profile (@coolhandben). He seems very anti-Trump for sure and I screen capped a couple of shots of his Twitter account where he was retweeting some of Patton Oswalt’s perverted Tweets
I don’t know what all of that really says about the incident in East Palestine, but the hometown figure Ratner, playing as an extra in the Netflix movie with an eerily similar plot to the East Palestine incident, coupled with what one might deduce about him from his Twitter profile, and his comments about the incident, well… anons decide
Dig on Netflix “White Noise”
Dig on “Ben Ratner” with Twitter handle “@coolhandben”
Ratner is from East Palestine and was an extra in the Netflix movie White Noise.
Would (they) contract Antifa types to do this?
“If the outcome of being correct or incorrect is the same, then it doesn’t matter.” —JL
If the outcome is the same, regardless of the input(s) (correct or incorrect information), then it doesn’t matter. Aka it’s inevitable, kinda like NCSWIC.