{"id":12538,"date":"2018-05-17T19:38:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T23:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/whistleblower-cambridge-analytical-worked-to-suppress-voter-turnout\/"},"modified":"2018-05-17T19:38:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T23:38:57","slug":"ang-whistleblower-cambridge-analytical-ay-nagtrabaho-upang-sugpuin-ang-turnout-ng-mga-botante","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/tl\/articles\/whistleblower-cambridge-analytical-worked-to-suppress-voter-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblower: Ang Cambridge Analytical ay Nagtrabaho upang Pigilan ang Pagboto ng Botante"},"template":"","class_list":["post-12538","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"Former Cambridge Analytical researcher Christopher Wylie says the firm spread information geared to keeping African-Americans away from the polls","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":8577}"],"related_issues":[143,149,169,2066,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"It looks like Cambridge Analytica was doing a lot more than collecting personal information about millions of Americans and using it to help Donald Trump win the presidency.\r\n\r\nChristopher Wylie, a Cambridge Analytica researcher-turned-whistleblower, told senators on Wednesday that his former employer\u2019s data collection was focused on keeping African-American voters from participating in the 2016 election.\r\n\r\nCambridge Analytica would target anybody with \"characteristics that would lead them to vote for the Democratic party, particularly African-American voters,\" Wylie charged. The strategy was to \"exploit certain vulnerabilities in certain segments to send them information that will remove them from the public forum, and feed them conspiracies and they'll never see mainstream media,\u201d he said.\r\n\r\nWylie said the voter suppression campaign was one of the reasons he left Cambridge Analytica. \"If it suited the client's objective, the firm [SCL, Cambridge Analytica's parent company] was eager to capitalize on discontent and to stoke ethnic tensions.\u201d\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/05-16-18%20Wylie%20Testimony.pdf\">You can read Wylie\u2019s full testimony here.<\/a>\r\n\r\nCambridge Analytica, funded by conservative billionaire and Republican donor Robert Mercer, was connected to the Trump campaign through Steve Bannon, who was editor of the Breitbart News, and vice president of Cambridge before signing on as Trump\u2019s campaign manager in the summer of 2016. Mercer also has been a major financial underwriter for Breitbart, which Bannon once described as a platform for the political alt-right, a conservative and white supremacist movement.\r\n\r\nWylie said Bannon wanted to foment \u201ccultural warfare as the means to create enduring change in American politics.\"\r\n\r\nBannon went on from the campaign to serve as Trump\u2019s chief strategist in the White House until last summer, when he was dismissed after being quoted saying derogatory things about the president. 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