ADThe material revives debates over the extent to which the voter profiles touted by Cambridge Analytica were actually used to sway the vote in 2016. ADADThe database, in Channel 4′s telling, was “used by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign” — an allegation the campaign denied. “This machine was built in part by a team from the now-notorious company Cambridge Analytica, working hand in glove with a team from the Republican National Committee,” the segment further claimed. “This comes as no surprise,” said Kaiser, who did not work on the Trump campaign but received detailed briefings about it while still working for Cambridge Analytica. It quoted voters in predominantly Black areas of Milwaukee and elsewhere expressing frustration that they had been targeted in this way.

Source: Washington Post September 28, 2020 22:03 UTC