Cambridge Analytica may be out of business thanks to bad publicity, but “Emerdata” is a new company, whose board includes the daughters of Robert Mercer, who bankrolled Cambridge Analytica; disgraced former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix is on its board of directors, and much of Cambridge Analytica’s C-suite has packed up their desks and moved into the Emerdata offices.
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Palantir has figured out how to make money by using algorithms to ascribe guilt to people, now they’re looking for new customers
In 2009, JP Morgan Chase’s “special ops” guy was an ex-Secret Service agent called Peter Cavicchia III, and he retained Palantir to spy on everyone in the company to find “insider threats”; even getting the bank to invest in Palantir.
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Koch-backed climate deniers are exploiting the reproducibility crisis to discredit climate science
The National Association of Scholars is a tiny, hydrocarbon-industry backed organization that is not to be confused with the National Academy of Sciences.
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Tesla pulls a Trump, smears critical press outlet as “extremists”
Tesla was extremely upset to learn that the employees who’d been injured and maimed in its factories spoke to Reveal News about the unsafe working conditions and culture of cover-ups at the Tesla plants.
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For years, Facebook has been secretly deleting Zuck’s messages from his correspondents’ inboxes
People who’d corresponded with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg contacted Techcrunch to say that Zuck’s messages were missing from their inboxes — but the replies to his messages lived on as proof that something had been deleted.
Kickstarting a public radio-backed revival of Gothamist, a beloved site killed by an evil, union-hating Trumpist billionaire
Gothamist voted to unionize in late 2017; immediately thereafter, its new owner, the evil, Trump-supporting billionaire Joe Ricketts killed it and all its sister publications in a fit of petty revenge against the uppity laborers in word-mines; but then, in February, a consortium of public radio stations announced plans to revive the beloved site, backed by an anonymous donor and the sites’ original founders.
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The idea behind Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data-harvesting app came from a Palantir employee, with support from Eric Schmidt’s daughter
Palantir is the surveillance company founded by authoritarian “libertarian” Peter Thiel; their business-development employee Alfredas Chmieliauskas was part of a cohort of Palantir employees who worked closely — if informally — with Cambridge Analytica as they hatched their plan to harvest 50,000,000 Facebook profiles with a deceptive “personality quiz” app.
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Cambridge Analytica became a US powerhouse thanks Mercer’s laundered money and a judas goat named John Bolton
After interviewing Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie and other CA sources and reviewing leaked documents, the Washington Post has pieced together the story of how the dirty-tricking electioneers worked their way Republican political circles, as billionaire founder Robert Mercer opened doors for them with other notorious GOP billionaire backers, with an able assist from newly minted national security adviser John Bolton, a notorious war-criminal with close ties to terrorist groups like MEK.
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Just because Cambridge Analytica tells its customers it can sway elections, it doesn’t follow that they’re any good at it
Unilever founder John Wanamaker famously said, “I know that half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. My only problem is that I don’t know which half.” It’s an odd testament to the power of advertising, an industry whose executives are incredibly effective at selling their services to other executives, even if they can’t prove they’re any good at selling their customers’ products to the public.
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Billionaire Cartier boss returns from fishing holiday gripped with terror that the poors are going to start building guillotines
Tobacco heir Johann Rupert is worth $7.5B; he’s head of Cartier, Montblanc, Chloe and other luxury goods labels, having returned to the helm of his Richemont holding company after a year-long fly-fishing sabbatical; in a speech to the Financial Times Business of Luxury Summit in Monaco he revealed that he no longer sleeps at night because he is worried that “envy, hatred and social warfare” will destabilize the world.
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