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"What is so striking about the Leave campaigns during the 2016 Referendum is that the relationship between them was so close and intertwined. AIQ was actually introduced to Vote Leave by a former employee of Cambridge Analytica" https://bylinetimes.com/2020/01/20/did-the-leave-campaigns-share-our-data-key-questions-over-brexit-referendum-remain-unanswered/
SCL also had employees and contractors who were former Russian intelligence officers. Wylie also tells of a strange approach from the Russian petrol giant Lukoil.
US voters were then targeted with questions about Putin, who polled well among Republicans. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/11/25/russian-interference-ii-brexit-and-the-great-cambridge-analytica-hack/
US voters were then targeted with questions about Putin, who polled well among Republicans. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/11/25/russian-interference-ii-brexit-and-the-great-cambridge-analytica-hack/
Cambridge Analytica claimed it played a crucial role in Brexit. Its Canadian offshoot, AIQ, was the main beneficiary of the spending by the official Vote Leave campaign. Boris Johnson was the most high profile member of Vote Leave. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/01/25/nigel-farage-and-boris-johnson-adviser-steve-bannon-implicated-in-mueller-investigation/
AIQ was invited to pitch for business with Number 10 while Cambridge Analytica won a $500,000 no-bid contract with the US State Department for its ‘target audience research’ – a military grade propaganda tool developed for the British Ministry of Defence. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/29/democracy-in-danger-what-happened-to-our-data-after-the-eu-referendum/
“We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people’s profiles,” he said. “And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on.” https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/18/robert-mercer-is-fueling-a-multimillion-dollar-anti-muslim-propaganda-industry/
For the last two years, there have been multiple reports of contact between Johnson and the former head of Breitbart News. In an out-take from the documentary The Brink, Bannon claims he helped Johnson script key speeches. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/07/31/you-aint-seen-nothing-yet-steve-bannons-brexit-catastrophe-is-all-part-of-his-wider-plan/
Boris Johnson should – according to Bannon – replace Theresa May as leader of this country. And Johnson has clearly been listening to the siren call of populism. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/03/07/boris-johnson-planning-a-trump-like-populist-bid-for-pm-backed-by-steve-bannon-and-the-far-right/
Cambridge Analytica was an exclusive reseller of Breitbart data, and the principle of ‘information operations’ – as revealed by former head of research Chris Wylie – was not to bombard targets with ads or obvious propaganda https://bylinetimes.com/2019/01/17/is-boris-johnson-betraying-britain-with-his-bannon-style-paranoia-about-the-deep-state/
Much has been made of the personal antipathy between personalities in the official Vote Leave and unofficial Leave. EU campaigns. But, they began a joint project three years before the EU Referendum, just as they are now converging three years later. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/06/21/the-transatlantic-triumph-of-trumpism-boris-johnson-a-plan-years-in-the-making/
Boris Johnson had an undocumented meeting with the electioneering company in early 2017 and the company was also invited to a special two-day conference at the Foreign Office’s Wilton Park in January that year. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/10/02/foreign-interference-trump-leans-on-johnson-to-meddle-in-mueller-probe/
“Building the wall is not to stop immigrants – most come on a plane – it’s to embody separation,” https://bylinetimes.com/2019/06/20/the-wall-in-the-mind-30-years-after-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-how-is-its-legacy-being-used-to-create-psychological-division-in-todays-culture-wars/
It may seem like this all just happened overnight, but this explosion of proto-fascism can all be traced back to two major sparks, exactly five years ago, in August of 2014, from the website 4chan. org. https://bylinetimes.com/2019/10/02/monster-power-steve-bannons-crucial-role-in-the-radicalisation-of-the-far-right/
"the willingness of political leaders not only to break the law but to revel in breaking it is a fatal step towards the replacement of democracy with authoritarian terror”. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/02/11/pre-fascism-is-now-everywhere-in-politics-what-can-be-done/
"References made by Nigel Oakes from SCL and Andy Wigmore from Leave .EU regarding the propaganda techniques developed by the Nazis are particularly concerning" https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1190036418728517633
"Political Microtargeting is a process whereby individuals across a voter population are predictively modeled to understand where they fit amongst the Target Audiences identified by our research."
- Cambridge Analytica https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1189682374818308096
- Cambridge Analytica https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1189682374818308096
An important transition of microtargeting from deregulated information spheres for the purposes of war propaganda and into Western political campaigns involved the psychological targeting of Afghans for the British military by SCL Group. https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1180816623911014404
"These companies grew not just from political campaigning and commercial advertising, but some emerged through our own governments’ information warfare." - Dr Briant https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1085300571970637825
"We are working with the campaign and their various partners to identify, profile and engage voters in the lead-up to the referendum on Britain’s EU membership"
- SCL Group : Cambridge Analytica, defining the work they were doing for the Leave campaign. https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1156138632081805318
- SCL Group : Cambridge Analytica, defining the work they were doing for the Leave campaign. https://twitter.com/SbyBT/status/1156138632081805318
