Section: US & Canada
Undercover investigation claims Cambridge Analytica engages in illegal tactics
Cambridge Analytica’s chief executive officer Alexander Nix (Credit: Getty/Patricia De Melo) Cambridge Analytica, the data firm closely linked to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, reportedly secretly campaigns in many global elections and uses illegal tactics like bribes and sex workers to compromise politicians, ITN Channel 4 News...
Trump campaign consultants allegedly caught bragging about crooked tactics
The data-analysis company that did work for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign bragged about going to crooked lengths — including using Ukrainian sex workers, cash bribes and fake IDs — to secretly swing elections, according to a report Monday. Alexander Nix, the chief executive of Cambridge Analytica, was caught on tape boasting to an...
Q&A: What Putin’s Re-Election Means
Russia held its presidential election on Sunday, with President Vladimir Putin emerging the clear victor. He is now slated to begin a new, six-year term that will take him well into his third decade as head of state. The Daily Signal sat down with Alexis Mrachek of The Heritage Foundation to discuss Sunday’s election and what it means for...
FAQ: What’s up with Cambridge Analytica and Facebook?
By Philip Bump | Washington Post Late on Friday, Facebook made an unexpected announcement: The data firm Cambridge Analytica, hyped as integral to President Donald Trump’s election, was suspended from the social network for using data collected improperly from Facebook users. Start your day with the news you need from the Bay Area and...
Don’t expect a fourth term to make Putin any friendlier to the west
Vladimir Putin scored a resounding victory in Russia’s presidential election Sunday, and his campaign spokesman welcomed the good news by thanking an unlikely helper: the nation of Britain, which had spent the last week publicly accusing Moscow of poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil with a chemical weapon. All that drama...
Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
Senior executives at Cambridge Analytica – the data company that credits itself with Donald Trump’s presidential victory – have been secretly filmed saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers. In an undercover investigation by Channel 4 News, the company’s chief executive...
Russia Launches Military Exercises In Crimea, Abkhazia, Day After Presidential Vote
Russian armed forces have launched large-scale military exercises in southern parts of the country, including the Russian-occupied regions in Georgia and the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. …read more Source: Radio Free Europe / Radio...
British sting reveals how Trump’s IT firm used sex workers and bribes to fix political races
Britain’s Channel 4 conducted a lengthy sting operation on the strategic data firm that helped get Donald Trump elected. And what they found was a company that used sex, bribery and blackmail to get what they want. Channel 4 launched their investigation after interviewing former Cambridge Analytica research director Christopher Wylie. It...
Ex-Trump Consultant and Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix Offered to Blackmail Politicians With Prostitutes
GettyLONDON—Executives from at The Daily Beast. …read more Source: The Daily...
Cambridge Analytica bragged about using fake news, bribes, and Ukranian hookers to influence elections
An undercover sting by Channel 4 News has revealed that executives from Cambridge Analytica boasted that they could entrap politicians with Ukrainian sex workers, offer bribes to public officials, and use former spies to dig dirt on political opponents. The report reveals CEO Alexander Nix and other Cambridge Analytica executives admitting to...
