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by Pokepokalypse 1727 days ago
The recorded sales-pitch with their CEO Nix that the BBC aired, revealed that effort as largely a Political Scam operation. The guy was supposedly the CEO of an AI research firm - but he was offering services to send underage prostitutes around to politicians to attempt to entrap them for extortion purposes.

Whatever Cambridge Analytica actually DID, it was probably 90% snake-oil; (leveraging on the "AI" hype in the industry).