Trump Donor Asked Data Firm If It Could Better Organize Hacked Emails

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

Exchange between Rebekah Mercer and Cambridge Analytica’s CEO shows efforts to leverage Hillary Clinton-related messages

Trump donor Rebekah Mercer in August 2016 asked the chief executive of a data-analytics firm working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign whether the company could better organize the Hillary Clinton -related emails being released by WikiLeaks, according to a person familiar with their email exchange.

The previously undisclosed details from the exchange between Ms. Mercer and Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix show how an influential Trump supporter was looking to leverage the hacked Clinton-related messages to boost Mr. Trump’s campaign.

Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Nix emailed Ms. Mercer and some company employees that he had reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to offer help organizing the Clinton-related emails the website was releasing. The new details shed light on the timing of Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange, which came before his company began working for the Trump campaign.

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-donor-asked-data-firm-if-it-could-better-organize-hacked-emails-1509133587

 

 

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

Nix plays polo. Great way to meet important people...

[Dashinka 24,505]

1 minute ago, Jacque67 said:

Nix plays polo. Great way to meet important people...

I thought all the elites played polo?  

[Dashinka 24,505]

Is this deja vu?

 

 

Edited October 28, 2017 by Bill & Katya

[Jacque67 7,328]

Yeah Nix met the Russian ambassador at a polo match in England just after emailing Assange. 

[Dashinka 24,505]

Just now, Jacque67 said:

Yeah Nix met the Russian ambassador at a polo match in England just after emailing Assange. 

Were Prince William and Prince Harry there?

[Jacque67 7,328]

Interns!!!

 

this happened with the GRU cut out.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-data-russia-cambridge-analytica-2017-10

[Jacque67 7,328]

Everyone was there. However Nix emailed Assange, CC'ed Mercer, then met up with the Russian Ambassador in the UK.

😭

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

On 10/28/2017 at 4:22 AM, Jacque67 said:

Interns!!!

 

this happened with the GRU cut out.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-data-russia-cambridge-analytica-2017-10

might explain how the Russia ads were so effective  for so cheap, accruate Geo data for targeted areas.  

 

 

Recent reporting has revealed that Russia harnessed and harvested "outrage" sentiment in an attempt to galvanize and sway voters during the campaign. Accounts linked to Russia bought $100,000 worth of Facebook ads between 2015 and 2016, many of which promoted outsider candidates and exploited racial tensions. Similar methods were deployed on Twitter, Google, Instagram, Pinterest — and even Pokemon Go, as CNN reported earlier this week.

Additionally, the intern appeared to have left Cambridge Analytica's Twitter API secret and key online when he uploaded the scripts. The secret and key, which was removed in February, amounts to the account username and password that companies and developers use to search and pull tweets and user profile information from Twitter, Albright explained.

Albright said the code for the tools was "sitting right on Github for almost a year: from March 2016 to February 2017 — the last 8 months of the US election."