New Cambridge Analytica docs obtained by AP offer a window into how the firm collected troves of data about likely voters. A watchdog group also claims they show illegal coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and a pro-Trump super PAC.
Brittany Kaiser poses for a portrait with an image from a Cambridge Analytica slideshow on her computer, Friday, Oct. 16, 2020 in Boise, Idaho. Documents released to The Associated Press in September 2020 from Kaiser, a former Cambridge Analytica insider, reveal what an election watchdog group claims was illegal coordination between Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and a pro-Trump PAC largely financed by billionaire Robert Mercer.
The complaint also alleges that Cambridge Analytica — which improperly acquired and used 87 million Facebook users’ profiles to predict their behavior — had a shared project calendar for both entities, among other evidence. The complaint alleges that Cambridge Analytica used information it gained from working with Trump’s campaign to develop and target ads for the super PAC supporting his candidacy, “constituting unreported in-kind contributions to Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. in the form of coordinated communications.
The complaint is still before the commission, but the FEC hasn’t had enough commissioners to decide on complaints since early July, and does not make cases — or its deliberations about cases — public until commissioners reach decisions and close cases, said FEC spokesman Myles Martin. Since resigning from the data-mining firm and taking her computer with her, Kaiser has met with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s office and an associate of Julian Assange. Kaiser has also founded a nonprofit group for children’s digital education and is managing the presidential campaign of independent candidate Brock Pierce, a former child actor and cryptocurrency entrepreneur.
“You are looking at a bunch of C.Y.A. emails where they are pretending that they are somehow responsible for something positive, and that has nothing to do with me,” she said. “It’s men behaving badly.” Mercer first supported a Conway-led super PAC backing Cruz for president. When Cruz dropped out, the Mercers threw their support to Trump and the political action committee became Make America Number 1.
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