background preloader

Cambridge Analytica

Facebook Twitter

Further back - Obama's 'briljant' social media tactics - the facebook election -

Cambridge Analytica. Wayback Machine. Cambridge Analytica – Better Audience Targeting - 10 mrt 2016 - team CA + PR VIDEO. ( mirror ) CA + Trump Election [ PR VIDEO by CA - via web.archive.org - ] Matt Oczkowski (@MattOczkowski) Cambridge Analytica (@CamAnalytica) Cambridge Analytica (@CamAnalytica) Team CA.

Big Five personality traits. Personality model consisting of five broad dimensions of personality The Big Five personality traits The theory identifies five factors: openness to experience (inventive/curious vs. consistent/cautious)conscientiousness (efficient/organized vs. extravagant/careless)extraversion (outgoing/energetic vs. solitary/reserved)agreeableness (friendly/compassionate vs. challenging/callous)neuroticism (sensitive/nervous vs. resilient/confident)[4] The five factors are abbreviated in the acronyms OCEAN or CANOE.

Big Five personality traits

Beneath each proposed global factor, there are a number of correlated and more specific primary factors. Family life and upbringing will affect these traits. Development[edit] The initial model was advanced by Ernest Tupes and Raymond Christal in 1961,[13] but failed to reach an academic audience until the 1980s. Descriptions of the particular personality traits[edit] Openness to experience[edit] Big Five Personality Traits: The OCEAN Model Explained [2019 Upd.] The Big Five personality traits are all about the following question: “Who are you?”

Big Five Personality Traits: The OCEAN Model Explained [2019 Upd.]

It’s a simple enough question, but it’s one of the hardest ones to answer. There are many ways to interpret that question. An answer could include your name, your job title, your role in your family, your hobbies or passions, and your place of residence or your birthplace. Guardian - 11 Dec 2015 - Ted Cruz campaign using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users - by Harry Davies @harryfoxdavies.

Ted Cruz’s presidential campaign is using psychological data based on research spanning tens of millions of Facebook users, harvested largely without their permission, to boost his surging White House run and gain an edge over Donald Trump and other Republican rivals, the Guardian can reveal.

Guardian - 11 Dec 2015 - Ted Cruz campaign using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users - by Harry Davies @harryfoxdavies

A little-known data company, now embedded within Cruz’s campaign and indirectly financed by his primary billionaire benefactor, paid researchers at Cambridge University to gather detailed psychological profiles about the US electorate using a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey. Ted Cruz campaign using firm that harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users. Harry Davies (@harryfoxdavies) The Data That Turned the World Upside Down. Jan 30, 2017 - If you haven't yet read this, it's the crucial article on how Trump won. And another good reason to get off Facebook. Trump’s data team saw a different America—and they were right. The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump. Claims that social media data won the presidency are greatly exaggerated A piece of data science mythology has been floating around the internet for several weeks now.

The myth that British data scientists won the election for Trump

It surfaced most recently in Vice, and it tells the story of a firm, Cambridge Analytica, that was supposedly instrumental in Donald Trump’s campaign. The story goes that by analysing marketing and social media data during the EU Referendum, data scientists were able to model the personalities of voters in unprecedented detail, helping the Leave campaign to an unlikely victory. Shortly after that, the firm was employed by the Trump campaign where, we are told, it contributed to another unlikely victory. In NC, black turnout decreased b/c “in 40 heavily black counties, there were 158 fewer early polling places.” The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016. There were 25 debates during the presidential primaries and general election and not a single question about the attack on voting rights, even though this was the first presidential election in 50 years without the full protections of the Voting Rights Act.

The GOP’s Attack on Voting Rights Was the Most Under-Covered Story of 2016

Fourteen states had new voting restrictions in place for the first time in 2016—including crucial swing states like Wisconsin and Virginia—yet we heard nary a peep about it on Election Day except from outlets like The Nation. This was the biggest under-covered scandal of the 2016 campaign. We’ll likely never know how many people were kept from the polls by restrictions like voter-ID laws, cuts to early voting, and barriers to voter registration. But at the very least this should have been a question that many more people were looking into. For example, 27,000 votes currently separate Trump and Clinton in Wisconsin, where 300,000 registered voters, according to a federal court, lacked strict forms of voter ID. Clinton’s data-driven campaign relied heavily on an algorithm named Ada. What didn’t she see? Hillary Clinton at a rally in Raleigh, N.C., on the eve of the election.

Clinton’s data-driven campaign relied heavily on an algorithm named Ada. What didn’t she see?

(Melina Mara/The Washington Post) Inside Hillary Clinton's campaign, she was known as Ada. Like the candidate herself, she had a penchant for secrecy and a private server. As blame gets parceled out Wednesday for the Democrat's stunning loss to Republican President-elect Donald Trump, Ada is likely to get a lot of second-guessing. Ada is a complex computer algorithm that the campaign was prepared to publicly unveil after the election as its invisible guiding hand. Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right. Nobody saw it coming.

Trump’s Data Team Saw a Different America—and They Were Right

Not the media. Certainly not Hillary Clinton. To understand how misled you'll be if you confine yourself only to reading liberal & mainstream voices, read this. @ggreenwald There's a lot of hot air in that piece, Glenn. See @davekarpf. Retrospective Wishcasting. Please don’t fool yourselves into believing that the secret to Trump’s success lay in some grand, secret data innovation.

Retrospective Wishcasting

(Photo: Jessica Tam) In the aftermath of any presidential campaign, there is a natural inclination to rewrite history to make sense of the outcome. That’s a bad habit. It leads us to impart meaning to the wrong things and take away the wrong lessons. We ought to avoid it. Here's a SOBERING stat: Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a wider margin than 24 of the 45 ELECTED Presidents. #ElectoralCollegeJoke.

This cannot be said enough. White college educated voters elected Trump. The white rural and working class have been Republican for decades. Blame Trump’s Victory on College-Educated Whites, Not the Working Class. The average Trump voter is not poorly educated or unemployed, nor does he live in a rural area.

Blame Trump’s Victory on College-Educated Whites, Not the Working Class

Back in May, FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver punctured the myth of the “working class” being Trump’s voter base: In exit polls of 23 states from the primaries, all showed a higher median income for Trump supporters than the national average, usually around $70,000. Exit polls last week, while not definitive, reveal that both college-educated white men and college educated white women voted for Trump by much higher than expected margins.

While it is true that many rural voters who backed Obama in 2008 and 2012 voted for Trump this year, these voters hardly comprise the majority of Trump’s 60 million votes, as rural voters made up only 17 percent of this year’s electorate. Most rural voters generally vote Republican anyway. Presidential election analysis: On the edge of Illinois' urban-rural divide. Breaking: Jill Stein has raised enough money to fund recounts in key states Hillary Clinton lost. Guardian - 7 May 2017 - The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked - by Carole Cadwalladr. “The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty.”

Guardian - 7 May 2017 - The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked - by Carole Cadwalladr

Alex Younger, head of MI6, December, 2016 “It’s not MI6’s job to warn of internal threats. It was a very strange speech. Was it one branch of the intelligence services sending a shot across the bows of another? The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked. “The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty.” Alex Younger, head of MI6, December, 2016 “It’s not MI6’s job to warn of internal threats.

It was a very strange speech. Was it one branch of the intelligence services sending a shot across the bows of another? Christopher Wylie □️‍□ (@chrisinsilico) Aleksandr Kogan (@AleksandrBKogan) The intercept - March 30 2017 - Facebook User Data Harvested by Cambridge Analytica - by Mattathias Schwartz @Schwartzesque. In 2014, traces of an unusual survey, connected to Facebook, began appearing on internet message boards. The boards were frequented by remote freelance workers who bid on “human intelligence tasks” in an online marketplace, called Mechanical Turk, controlled by Amazon.

The “turkers,” as they’re known, tend to perform work that is rote and repetitive, like flagging pornographic images or digging through search engine results for email addresses. Most jobs pay between 1 and 15 cents. “Turking makes us our rent money and helps pay off debt,” one turker told The Intercept. Another turker has called the work “voluntary slave labor.” The task posted by “Global Science Research” appeared ordinary, at least on the surface.

“Our terms of service clearly prohibit misuse,” said a spokesperson for Amazon Web Services, by email. In late 2015, the turkers began reporting that the Global Science Research survey had abruptly shut down. Facebook Failed to Protect 30 Million Users From Having Their Data Harvested by Trump Campaign Affiliate. In 2014, traces of an unusual survey, connected to Facebook, began appearing on internet message boards. The boards were frequented by remote freelance workers who bid on “human intelligence tasks” in an online marketplace, called Mechanical Turk, controlled by Amazon. The “turkers,” as they’re known, tend to perform work that is rote and repetitive, like flagging pornographic images or digging through search engine results for email addresses. Most jobs pay between 1 and 15 cents. “Turking makes us our rent money and helps pay off debt,” one turker told The Intercept. Another turker has called the work “voluntary slave labor.”

The task posted by “Global Science Research” appeared ordinary, at least on the surface. “Our terms of service clearly prohibit misuse,” said a spokesperson for Amazon Web Services, by email. In late 2015, the turkers began reporting that the Global Science Research survey had abruptly shut down. Mattathias Schwartz (@Schwartzesque) 30 million Facebook users had their data harvested by Trump campaign affiliate by @Schwartzesque. Guardian - Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach. The data analytics firm that worked with Donald Trump’s election team and the winning Brexit campaign harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters, in one of the tech giant’s biggest ever data breaches, and used them to build a powerful software program to predict and influence choices at the ballot box.

A whistleblower has revealed to the Observer how Cambridge Analytica – a company owned by the hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and headed at the time by Trump’s key adviser Steve Bannon – used personal information taken without authorisation in early 2014 to build a system that could profile individual US voters, in order to target them with personalised political advertisements. Christopher Wylie, who worked with a Cambridge University academic to obtain the data, told the Observer: “We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. The revelations provoked widespread outrage. Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles'

NYT 17 may 2018 - How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions. But in July 2014, an American election lawyer advising the company, Laurence Levy, warned that the arrangement could violate laws limiting the involvement of foreign nationals in American elections. In a memo to Mr. Bannon, Ms. Mercer and Mr. How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions - The New York Times. Details of Cambridge’s acquisition and use of Facebook data have surfaced in several accounts since the business began working on the 2016 campaign, setting off a furious debate about the merits of the firm’s so-called psychographic modeling techniques. But the full scale of the data leak involving Americans has not been previously disclosed — and Facebook, until now, has not acknowledged it.

NOS - 17-03-2018 - Gegevens 50 miljoen kiezers VS via Facebook buitgemaakt - Cookies op de website van NOS. NOS gebruikt Functionele en Analytische cookies voor website optimalisatie en statistieken. NOS - Gegevens 50 miljoen kiezers VS via Facebook buitgemaakt. NOS - Facebook schorst databedrijf om illegaal verzamelen gegevens. Cookies op de website van NOS. NOS - Facebook schorst databedrijf om illegaal verzamelen gegevens. NOS - Nieuwsuur - 18-03-2018 - Uitlekken gegevens naar Trump-campagne: 'Vooral Facebook is schuldig' Uitlekken gegevens naar Trump-campagne: 'Vooral Facebook is schuldig' Yesterday @facebook threatened to sue us. Today we publish this. Meet the whistleblower blowing the lid off Facebook & Cambridge Analytica. NOS - 29-04-2018 - Oud-medewerkers Facebook: we zijn gewoon genaaid met z'n allen.

Filter bubbles. Oud-medewerkers Facebook: we zijn gewoon genaaid met z'n allen. Tory donors among investors in Cambridge Analytica parent firm. Conservative party donors are among the investors in the company that spawned the election consultancy at the centre of a storm about use of data from Facebook. Filings for SCL Group, which is at the top of a web of companies linked to Cambridge Analytica, show that since its conception in 2005 its shareholders and officers have included a wine millionaire who has given more than £700,000 to the party, a former Conservative MP, and a peer who was a business minister under David Cameron.

Tory donors among investors in Cambridge Analytica parent firm. Conservative party donors are among the investors in the company that spawned the election consultancy at the centre of a storm about use of data from Facebook. Filings for SCL Group, which is at the top of a web of companies linked to Cambridge Analytica, show that since its conception in 2005 its shareholders and officers have included a wine millionaire who has given more than £700,000 to the party, a former Conservative MP, and a peer who was a business minister under David Cameron. 'You whitewashed the corruption': James Graham and Carole Cadwalladr on Brexit: The Uncivil War. Brexit: The Uncivil War by James Graham was never going to be anything other than hugely controversial. This is a drama that all sides were likely to love and hate in equal measure.

News - A year after revealing that the official leave campaign broke electoral law, whistleblower Shahmir Sanni and Guardian and Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr assess the impact of the story. 22 Jun 2019 - Video reveals Steve Bannon links to Boris Johnson. Steve Bannon says he advised Boris Johnson on key Leave speech linked to leadership bid. Guardian - 24 Oct 2019 - 'So you won't take down lies?': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenges Facebook CEO [ Mark Zuckerberg ] – video.

Youtube - guardian - 'So you won't take down lies?': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenges Facebook CEO. Mark Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy. Wayback Machine. It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up...always, always, always. This week @aoc brought the □□□. And here’s why I think there’s trouble ahead for Zuck. This isn’t the end of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s the beginning. Carole Cadwalladr on Twitter: "It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up...always, always, always. This week @aoc brought the □□□. And here’s why I think there’s trouble ahead for Zuck. This isn’t the end of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it’s the beginning.

WTF NOS publiceert Brexit timeline without Cambridge Analytica ?

'So you won't take down lies?': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenges Facebook CEO. NPR Choice page - Facebook’s newest critics: Facebook. #FactCheck #PoliticalAds Facebook Feels Pressure On Political Ad Policy. Facebook’s newest critics: Facebook. #FactCheck #PoliticalAds Facebook Feels Pressure On Political Ad Policy. Wayback Machine. Facebook fact checkers did not know they could vet adverts. Facebook employees 'strongly object' to policy allowing false claims in political ads. Facebook defends policy allowing false political ads - Breitbart. Facebook includes Breitbart in new 'high quality' news tab. If they are ads from dark money groups spreading lies, is Facebook going to let us know whose money paid for them? C’mon.… Can the US government stem the tide of ‘fake news’ in a postmodern world? Can the US government stem the tide of ‘fake news’ in a postmodern world?

Statement on an agreement reached between Facebook and the ICO. Statement on an agreement reached between Facebook and the ICO. Facebook Ireland Ltd. ( mirror ) facebook mpn 20181024. Facebook Ireland Ltd. We have published a statement on an agreement reached between Facebook and the ICO. ➡️ Wayback Machine. Facebook betaalt Britse toezichthouder half miljoen pond na dataschending Cambridge Analytica / Villamedia. Facebook betaalt Britse toezichthouder half miljoen pond na dataschending Cambridge Analytica / Villamedia. We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…□ Jack □□□ on Twitter: "We’ve made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons…□" Hi - here's our current definition: 1/ Ads that refer to an election or a candidate, or 2/ Ads that advocate for or against legislative issues of national importance (such as: climate change, healthcare, immigration, national security, taxes)…

Wayback Machine. Wow. Big move by @jack, and a bigger contrast to @Facebook's increasingly problematic policy positions.… Wayback Machine. This whole thread is absolutely brilliant. Destroys Facebook’s arguments. And demonstrates actual moral leadership. Who even knew that was possible in Silicon Valley?… Wayback Machine. This is the right thing to do for democracy in America and all over the world. What say you, @Facebook?… Zijn politieke advertenties op Twitter echt zo gevaarlijk? Wayback Machine. .@TomDobber: „Het probleem op Twitter zijn niet de politieke advertenties, maar de talloze nepaccounts waarmee politieke standpunten groter gemaakt kunnen worden.”

Wayback Machine. Alexander Pleijter □□ sur Twitter : ""Anders dan Facebook werkt Twitter niet met factcheckers samen en plaatst Twitter ook geen links naar correcties om valse informatie tegen te gaan. Dus is deze zet een kwestie van pr die gebrek aan aanpak van het probl. Wayback Machine. But fact-checking doesn't scale □…