Politics Cambridge Analytica: Data, spies, sex workers, blackmail

[Total Power]

Oh the humour. The clip was from a BBC tv show!

BBC This Week‏Verified account @bbcthisweek

"What evidence is there that the Russians had any influence on the Brexit referendum?” @afneil asks @acgrayling #bbctw

Not about that, selective reporting of news articles, the website is biased. Breitbart exactly does the same, one look at the website and you can tell what the site is all about. In other words, its biased.

 

[Ratts of Tobruk]

And the 'no evidence' cry is exactly the same one made about the Trump campaign. There are obvious links between Trump's team and the Russians, and lots of lying about it to suggest guilt. Then there was an investigation and more obvious evidence was provided, like the social media campaigns pretending to be from real Americans.

The fact Brexit doesn't have the last bit in a major concrete way yet, does not mean the first two elements aren't evidence. They just aren't concrete evidence. Russia has the motive and the track record. But what their specific influence was or was not is being looked into.

At least with Brexit the Leave campaign actually got a majority.

 

[Procrastinator35]

And the 'no evidence' cry is exactly the same one made about the Trump campaign. There are obvious links between Trump's team and the Russians, and lots of lying about it to suggest guilt. Then there was an investigation and more obvious evidence was provided, like the social media campaigns pretending to be from real Americans.

The fact Brexit doesn't have the last bit in a major concrete way yet, does not mean the first two elements aren't evidence. They just aren't concrete evidence. Russia has the motive and the track record. But what their specific influence was or was not is being looked into.

At least with Brexit the Leave campaign actually got a majority.

LOL....Deary Oh.

You are a MSM & Hollywood moguls dream Ratts.

 

[FireKrakouer]

Finally decided to click this thread again, and promptly laughed my ass off to see that we're blaming muh Russians for another election result we don't approve of.

It takes a fair dose of cognitive dissonance to ignore all the obvious examples of collusion, yet latch on to one conspiracy theory that points the other way.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Finally decided to click this thread again, and promptly laughed my ass off to see that we're blaming muh Russians for another election result we don't approve of.

It takes a fair dose of cognitive dissonance to ignore all the obvious examples of collusion, yet latch on to one conspiracy theory that points the other way.

But our Western MSM are the voice of reason & authority dude....If you question them ,then you may as well question the law of gravity, electro-magnetism, thermo-dynamics & nature itself.....They simply do not lie.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

LOL....Deary Oh.

You are a MSM & Hollywood moguls dream Ratts.

It's pretty bad isn't it?

Big bad Russians defeated the death cult isis. Australia has spent billions fighting isis. We citizens have lost a lot freedoms and taxes .

And Australians actively publishing bull about the very people that saved us billions. The very people who stopped isis

Couldn't make this s**t up

 

[Procrastinator35]

It's pretty bad isn't it?

Big bad Russians defeated the death cult isis. Australia has spent billions fighting isis. We citizens have lost a lot freedoms and taxes .

And Australians actively publishing bull about the very people that saved us billions. The very people who stopped isis

Couldn't make this s**t up

Who is it that stands to gain monetarily from increases in security?....I'll give you the drum on which nation stands at the nexus for western intel & security: Israel.

 

[Thegibbsgamble]

One day they'll make conspiracy theories about Australia much like they do isreal

Something along the lines we control the world or the Yanks do what we want and let us get away with massive attrocities against the indigenous, because America are reliant in us being a base in the southern hemisphere

 

[spinynorman]

Like many a bombshell story of the past few years, this week this one has been quietly walked back, as an investigation has found that "on examination, the methods that SCL were using, were in the main, well recognised processes using commonly available technology".

Article here: https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2020/10...ridge-Analytica-invites-regulatory-questions/

Excerpts below, because I know it sometimes paywalls:

A key controversy surrounding Cambridge Analytica has been the degree to which the company continued to rely on controversial data sets it acquired from Facebook, even after Facebook had asked them to delete them.

The original Facebook data was sourced from Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, an academic at Cambridge university, who had developed the psychographic techniques which Cambridge Analytica had become known for. While Kogan’s models were informed by data samples generated from a personality test he ran on Facebook with the permission of users, it later transpired the data also included information scraped about the friends of users without permission.

The ICO’s report, however, found that Cambridge Analytica had made efforts to delete the data when Facebook requested it to do so in 2016. The authority also noted the company had begun efforts to replicate the Kogan data on a fully independent and permissioned basis as far back as 2015.

According to the Commissioner, the authority found (our emphasis):

. . . no further evidence to change my earlier view that SCL/CA were not involved in the EU referendum campaign in the UK — beyond some initial inquiries made by SCL/CA in relation to Ukip data in the early stages of the referendum process. This strand of work does not appear to have then been taken forward by SCL/CA.

On Russian involvement, meanwhile, the Commissioner reminded that the ICO had already handed over what evidence they had found to the National Crime Agency. The final report by the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee revealed in February 2019 that this pertained to the discovery of Russian IP addresses in the data associated with Aleksandr Kogan’s server. The Commissioner added the investigation had not found any additional evidence of Russian involvement in material contained in the Cambridge Analytica servers it had since obtained. The National Crime Agency, meanwhile, is yet to pursue any action.

Last, the Commissioner said she identified “no significant breaches of the privacy and electronic marketing regulations and data protection legislation that met the threshold for formal regulatory action.”

Much like the recent story about the Russians paying off the Taliban to kill American soldiers, this is a story that made a great splash when it was published, and has quietly been found wanting. The media is too willing to publish stories that they want to be true, and too unwilling to be equally loud in correcting themselves after going all in on them. And too many have yet to realise this and start treating the media with the hearty scepticism it deserves and are as deep into baseless conspiracy theorism as Procrastinator35 and others that they mock. There's enough awful s**t in the world for us to buy into made up things.

 

[tandino]

Well blow me down with a feather.