Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns

The following article by Craig Timberg and Tom Hamburger was posted on the Washington Post website March 25, 2018:

Cambridge Analytica, a firm that ran data operations for President Trump’s 2016 campaign, was banned from Facebook on March 16. Here’s what you need to know. (Elyse Samuels, Patrick Martin/The Washington Post)

LONDON — Cambridge Analytica assigned dozens of non-U.S. citizens to provide campaign strategy and messaging advice to ­Republican candidates in 2014, according to three former workers for the data firm, even as an attorney warned executives to abide by U.S. laws limiting foreign involvement in elections.

The assignments came amid efforts to present the newly created company as “an American brand” that would appeal to U.S. political clients even though its parent, SCL Group, was based in London, according to former Cambridge Analytica research director Christopher Wylie. Continue reading “Former Cambridge Analytica workers say firm sent foreigners to advise U.S. campaigns”

Cambridge Analytica’s Dirty Tricks Elected Trump, CEO Claims

The following article by Nico Hines was posted on the Daily Beast website March 20, 2018:

Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, claimed they used proxies in the U.S. to influence the 2016 election.

Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero, The Daily Beast

LONDON—British political consultants that worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said they secretly used proxy organizations and super PACs to spread ads in the U.S. that could not be traced back to the Trump campaign.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of Cambridge Analytica, was secretly recorded by undercover reporters from Channel 4 in Britain who were posing as prospective clients. “There’s no evidence, there’s no paper trail, there’s nothing,” said Nix, reassuring them that his company’s dirty tricks for his clients would never be detected. Continue reading “Cambridge Analytica’s Dirty Tricks Elected Trump, CEO Claims”