(Trump’s data firm suspended: Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook
By Paul Grewal, VP & Deputy General Counsel*
We Maintain Strict Standards and Policies
Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do, and we require the same from people who operate apps on Facebook. In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.
Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.” Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it.
Although Kogan gained access to this information in a legitimate way and through the proper channels that governed all developers on Facebook at that time, he did not subsequently abide by our rules. By passing information on to a third party, including SCL/Cambridge Analytica and Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, he violated our platform policies. When we learned of this violation in 2015, we removed his app from Facebook and demanded certifications from Kogan and all parties he had given data to that the information had been destroyed. Cambridge Analytica, Kogan and Wylie all certified to us that they destroyed the data.
Breaking the Rules Leads to Suspension
Several days ago, we received reports that, contrary to the certifications we were given, not all data was deleted. We are moving aggressively to determine the accuracy of these claims. If true, this is another unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments they made. We are suspending SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Wylie and Kogan from Facebook, pending further information.
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/h/suspending-cambridge-analytica/
Farcebiok had standards? Bwahahaha!!!! Since when? Are all Brock’s little data miners still members in good standing or are they still posting pirn on certain sites to get them shut down?
Bernie Sanders Facebook Pages Shut Down After Porn Cyber Attack
Several Facebook pages supporting Bernie Sanders were quickly shut down late Monday night after self-proclaimed Hillary Clinton supporters flooded some of the pages with pornographic images.
The pro-Sanders pages, including Bernie or Bust, Bernie Believers and Bernie Sanders is my HERO, had a combined 250,000 followers.
https://www.thewrap.com/bernie-sanders-facebook-pages-shut-down-after-po...
Now this is sadly funny!
EDIT: what do ya think?
Comments
Well, I went home
with the waitress, the way I always do
How was I to know, she was with the Russians, too?
"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X
Remember that woman who said that people should accuse
Bernie of sexual assault? Maybe that's what the messing with his website was.
This is interesting. I'm thinking that he has a good chance of getting his retirement anyway because of the way Trump fired him. He was twauntering on Twitter and saying that he wondered if he would make it to his retirement date.
Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI deputy and Trump target, fired days before retiring
This is the first I heard acknowledgement of the foundation being investigated. I've heard rumors that Sessions had hired someone not from the Justice department was going to do that, but they were keeping it under wraps. The foundation is nothing but a money laundering scheme and while it may have had some charitable acts, most of the money went to the Clinton's lifestyle. Travel, private jets and some very nice hotels.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
I would like to see
Denying McCabe a pension does seem unnecessarily cruel. If the guy committed crimes, charge him with them.
Mary Bennett
I want the Clintons and the Trump admin. gone.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
Are you suggesting that we actually have
a functional justice system? If we have to wait for the courts to prosecute all government employee miscreants for their abuses of investigative or prosecutorial responsibilities or their illegal "color of law" involvement in drug, weapons and fissile material trading, we might just as well hand out the Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free cards to all and dispense with the pretense that all are equal under the law in this country.
It's very difficult to find prosecutors who will bring charges, or federal judges who will hear cases for high ranking Federal employees. Biting the hand that feeds you by prosecuting a minion of one of those who gave you your job, will make you very unpopular in DC, as in terminally unpopular.
I feel no compassion for Andrew McCabe's predicament, and hope that he is treated to a full measure of justice, not the wrist slap that insiders normally receive in our two tiered joke of a justice system.
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Since when does McCabe deserve his pension
I think I'll go home, shedding crocodile tears.
nice hair, sanborn
*cough*
The earth is a multibillion-year-old sphere.
The Nazis killed millions of Jews.
On 9/11/01 a Boeing 757 (AA77) flew into the Pentagon.
AGCC is happening.
If you cannot accept these facts, I cannot fake an interest in any of your opinions.
Whoa! Stealing data from Facebook users
and selling it, so that Facebook can't profit from selling it themselves because the market's already filled? No wonder they're pissed...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Cambridge Analytica
is mentioned a lot in a documentary about the Trump campaign's use of data, a documentary that I heard parts of on my car radio one day. It was infused with dark scary music for every scene in which the Trump campaign was alleged to have tried to manipulate voters into voting for him. I came into the middle of it and can't find it online right now, but I thought it was about Russia until it became clear it was about Trump's American and British consultants.
Anyway, here is some commentary from last fall:
You might mean "Trumping Democracy"
It's a French documentary that was playing during a fundraiser on my local, non-corporate radio station.
[video:http://cinemalibrestudio.com/trumpingdemocracy/index.html]
Trumping Democracy
Beware the bullshit factories.
Yes!
Here's the trailer. Thank you for finding it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmOlX0KbT4A
The interesting thing
about this is that the dark scary music is applied to a conservative American mogul instead of to Putin. The documentary was made quite a while ago and received, I'm thinking, little or no coverage by the Democratic Party affiliated media. Why? Wrong villain?
I think Putin's ragtag outfit is nothing compared to Mercer's
Mercer is an MIT trained and noted computer scientist who made an algorithm that got him billions with a hedge fund.
Beware the bullshit factories.
So interesting.
It looks, though looks can be deceiving, like the Dems wanted to blame a ruthless mastermind for their stupid loss, but somehow, this guy Mercer has the potential to be useful to them going forward, or is so powerful and connected they can't oppose him or disclose him, so they put Putin in his place because Putin is worth his weight in plutonium.
To be clear, I don't think these algorithms had anything to do with the election. I really don't, even if Mercer did what the documentary describes. I think there are enough angry voters in this country to reject Clinton and vote for Trump to explain the loss. Puppy ads and gun ads were not going to change what is now generations of problems the American people have been living with. But what's interesting here is the amazing assertion that such data usage did change the election and that it was done by an American cabal, not a Russian one. No doubt the mainstream media will find a connection between Mercer and Putin and that the world of deception is all Putin's handiwork.
Just like the Dems (and Reps) don't want to talk about
the real issue that will unite the country: money in politics. That issue would roll over any distracting, wedge issue that was put in it's way.
Beware the bullshit factories.
Plenty of questions indeed
If this and other 'micro targeting techniques' need to be banned, then shouldn't the Correct the Record tactic also be banned? After all, it was done to change people's minds about what was written about Her in the comments. Correct the Record? I'm not sure that is what CTR was doing. I have seen this being question on whether or not it was legal or ethical. This seems to me to be the same type of collusion that Russia is being accused of even though none of the ads mentioned either candidate.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
@snoopydawg
What countries were used in the outsourcing of Clinton trolls?
India especially rings a bell for troll-farms they used, think mainly for FB likes/followers - intended to influence the nomination (s)election. Hard finding stuff as search terms referencing variations on Clinton campaign troll farms have evidently been 'adjusted' to produce floods of RUSSIA!!! nonsense - and no idea what may have been removed/made inaccessible, not to mention being older info now and with a hell of a lot of Russiagate pumped out since. And of course, using the sort of criteria apparently in fashion with the Clinton faction, that'd make Clinton colluding with India to influence the election.
Where a video recently posted here showed her bitching all over India about how the failure of American voters too stupid to vote for The Right One of Their Betters lost her Her turn - and after all of her bragging about having won the popular vote by several million but then losing the the Electoral College lobbyists and others, something which she'd previously had in the bag...
But over 6 million was paid to Correct The Record and I'll bet at least some of that was outsourced to starving trolls in impoverished countries to save money on wages.
Dammit, they're supposed to Control The Messaging! Globally!
http://yournewswire.com/clinton-campaign-admit-they-pay-an-army-of-trolls/
The claims were that they were hiring professional PR people - to engage in what amounted to attempt to silence the free speech and information-sharing of voters regarding what was, to understate considerably, a catastrophically bad and pathetically venal candidate.
One publicly claiming herself to not be criminal in - at best - hazarding National Security in the process of enriching the family slushfund with, apparently, billions* while in public office (big donors only incidentally profiting madly as a result of big donations made before and/or after having positive decisions where her office would have held influence/veto power/decision-making ability,) merely to have been utterly incapable of understanding and following basic security protocol as Secretary of State and therefore The Best Possible Presidential Choice Or Else.
And whose destructive pathology has been self-revealed by her record and typified in her public laughter and excited enjoyment of memories of the appalling and agonizing death by anal rape (with what I seem to recall may have been a bayonet?) of a Head of State she'd played a role in the overthrow of in order to install a likely corporate puppet over a sovereign country.
But that obviously would have bothered nobody if it hadn't been for those pesky Russians not even saying this sort of thing out loud, merely implying it with cute puppy-pics everyone automatically contrasted with the Clintons...
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-digital-trolling-20160506-...
Why the hell don't these guys hire those Russian trolls? There were certainly less than 13, since some of those indicted hadn't worked there since 2014, (so I guess they're going after everyone who ever promoted click-bait ads there) and whoever was actually at least working there to produce these (the preponderance having been posted after the election/seen by nobody/seen by very few people) is obviously amazing to have had such a retroactive effect, not only regarding the ads themselves, typically cleverly not even referencing the election, but to have so many people revolted by the Clinton's lie, abuses, venality and damaging policies sacrificing the public interest to, and draining public coffers for, outside self-interests, going back decades and with these... precognitive? effects only invariably growing with exposure and further disgusting examples mysteriously appearing wherever the Clintons did.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02/state-department-troll-farm-receive...
And yet all this, over and above what amounts to apparently the hundreds of billions invested in such as corporate-media electoral advertising, was so easily overcome by the clever RUSSIAN!!! use of a few people in a small commercial company running a relative few and apparently typically rarely spotted puppy-pics, BLM mentions and the like on FB and Twitter among the best and/or far more highly financed efforts of FB and Twitter themselves, the State Department, the Clinton campaign and billionaire/corporate supporters/SuperPacs and companies.
They were all merely as dust beneath Super-Putin's Sun-chariot wheels.
All claiming to be hopelessly out-classed by the mythical Super-Putin, apparently because they'd rather frame admitting their stupidity (and cupidity) in this astoundingly stupid manner so that they can use it as an excuse to eradicate all witnesses with a nuclear barrage. History can't show them as a bad example if there are no survivors.
Hey, it's a theory that actually covers a lot of ground, right? Probably not radiation or blast-proof, though, unfortunately, so no substitute for a publicly-provided or privately purchased luxury bunker, as those pushing Russiagate all likely have...(I'd like to think this is snark, but some of these people/groups are on record as being apparently quite willing, even eager, to sacrifice large portions of the population as long as they can figure that it works out OK for them. Even if on faulty information they'd rather ignore reality to believe...)
* (Bearing in mind that the Clinton Foundation chronically had trouble in declaring what was actually donated and made a lot of 'mistakes' trying. And that, among other things, even ginormous political contributions from foreign sources can be easily and anonymously managed in Biden's home stomping grounds, Delaware.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clintons-raised-nearly-2-billion...
(If enough foreign money changes hands to a Clinton expecting to win the Presidency, it's not collusion, right? And naturally a charity would be eager to '...promote the modernization of Ukraine' for a big enough donation. Guessing that the US-installed Neo-Nazi government there is big on modernization?)
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/21/clinton-foundation-give...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/clinton-money/
Everybody's doing it, doing it, doing it. At least, within a certain circle now beginning to cannibalize its own lower ranks.
Why do TPTB need, apparently, all of the money and power in the world concentrated within their own, relatively few, pathologically greedy little hands, while evidently detesting the fact that anyone else still retains anything, money, property, health, medical care or rights? That's an important question which nobody seems to be asking, perhaps because the answer can seemingly be found in such as a continuous collection of US industrialist psychopaths trying first for a global takeover using Germany, then continuing using America and multiple other countries in such as Operation Gladio, under the pretext of forever 'stay-behind terrorist armies' in case any attempt at, through much of this specifically and only Russian, (they having beaten off the first Nazi invasion and effectively won that war against fascism,) Communist invasion ever occurred. And look at what's been done to Greece by international financiers in light of the following. And perhaps we can finally have a better understanding of why 'the left' - the humanists - and all countries seeking democracy have been so comprehensively attacked, fragmented and crushed every time human nature, again and again, obeys the survival imperative for a sustainable society of equals
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio
Dead thread by now, I know, but dumping this which I started working on a couple of days ago now, I guess, anyway, 'as is', as the house-hold/personal care chemicals of some visitors staying here for an undetermined period have been making me too freaking sick, tired and ill to sometimes breathe properly or even see or think straight and some bits in here may come in useful to anyone happening to notice and bothering to read it. Dunno how much longer we'll be able to speak out... but we need to while we can.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Putin must be found
to connect to the American mogul, Robert Mercer, co-owner of Cambridge Analytica, who did this work for Trump, and so here it is.
The article at Medium last August by q502 is worth reading because it does focus on criminal activity on the part of U.S. and Russian money launderers and the suggestion that all investor criminals in Russia are closely connected to Putin, which is as substantial as the assertion that all investor criminals in the U.S. are connected to Clinton and Trump. The final paragraph establishes that in fact, by noting Mercer's company donated exactly the same amount to the Clinton campaign as to the Trump campaign in 2016.
But the point made by writers here at caucus99percent is that Putin has raised the standard of living in Russia for the average person. That is the war we're in. Can a politician surrounded by money launderers and kleptocrats, capitalist killers, work on behalf of the people? I think Putin is saying he can. And I believe that is why our capitalist killers want him dead or to identify him as everything bad. Yet they can't destroy him for the moment because he is sitting on top of a mountain of plunderable resources.
Lol, they do try, don't they?
Their projector light shines on... although has anyone heard anything else about this from the corporate media in all of the 'RUSSIA!!! Did Everything' That TPTB Do Themselves propagandist hysteria - or might this line have been dropped due to a protected group among the various PTB being involved?
Speaking As One Who Knows Nothing, my speculators are on again, so...
In the following, sounds, at least to me, almost as though political cash is being pumped from Wall St insiders - '...wealthy clients of UBS Group AG, Citigroup Inc. and others...' and making those facilitating this very wealthy indeed very quickly, so that they can play kingmaker and exert perhaps a proxy control for Wall St/other interests?
3 decades of working with data failed to bring the firm notable results, and only began, very suddenly, to work when this group from multiple of the biggest and most notorious Wall St. firms, (possibly with inside info from both government and finance industry?) all brought in a massive amount of investment money to this firm which had been failing and was down billions, to suddenly produce market-beating results for investors even as others were suffering severe downturns, (market manipulations they aren't in on?) Mercer seemingly becoming a billionaire just in time for election year, described in an interview as once-middle-class (or at least previously not insanely wealthy) by his daughter, yet immediately beginning to make enormous political contributions, gaining credit for Trump winning the Presidency (prior to the Putin Did It! craze) supplying political appointments such as Bannon and Kellyanne Conway (Mercer's daughter, self-described in an interview as previously in a group buying/running a bakery being shut down, being on a board of Trump's advisors) and guidance to a US President which could, in this scenario, conceivably be in actuality relayed from representatives of various Wall St. or other interests.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/renaissance-technologies-hedge-fund-on-a-7-...
Dunno, but all I have is that there 2 cents-worth that I'm playing with right now...
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.