The Lion, The Eagle, The Beaver, The Bear
These are the companies involved:
- Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL)
- Cambridge Analytica (CA)
- Global Science Research (GSR)
- AggregateIQ (AIQ)
These are the people:
- Alexander Nix
- Christopher Wiley
- Robert Mercer
- Steve Bannon
- Peter Thiel
- Erik Prince
- Aleksandr Kogan
- Zachary Massingham
- Jeffery Silvester
These are the people and companies both knowingly and unknowingly involved in sealing the data of 87 million Facebook users and using it to target voters in the US, UK, and around the world.
The Guardian has a decent article on the effect on the BREXIT vote, which is raising serious questions about current members of the UK cabinet.
I’m still working on the effect on US elections beginning in 2014. What is being discussed is a very sophisticate system for targeting individuals with specific ads and ‘news’ articles that reflect individual biases.
