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by snowwrestler
3012 days ago
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The description of "Mamba-Jamba" sounds similar to what Harper Reed's team built for Obama's campaign in 2012. In terms of illegality, there would only be a problem if AggregateIQ was not properly compensated for their work by the U.S. political campaigns--i.e. if AggregateIQ improperly provided value to the campaign as "in kind" donations of work. If the campaigns paid AggregateIQ for their work, there's nothing illegal or even improper. Campaigns are allowed to purchase products or services from foreign sources. |
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It's not quite so simple. It's true that US campaigns can purchase products and services from foreign vendors, but only to the extent that those services do not include any management or strategic decision-making services. So you could hire a Canadian firm to make data visualizations for you, but the firm could not tell the US campaign, "we recommend you target group x" based on that visualization.
But I agree, based on what is described here, there may be nothing here. Very much unlike certain Cambridge Analytica activities across the pond.