New Cambridge Analytica files to expose “industrial scale” voter manipulation

This appeared in The Millennial Source

According to a January 4 report in the Guardian, a new batch of leaked documents from the defunct political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica show that the company manipulated voters on an “industrial scale.”

The article suggests the leaks “lay bare the global infrastructure” of the company that collapsed in 2018 after revelations it had misused the data of 87 million Facebook users.

An anonymous Twitter account called HindsightFiles began posting the leaks on January 1. According to the Guardian, the account will release more than 100,000 documents over the next few months. The leaks relate to the operations of Cambridge Analytica in 68 countries. So far, the account has posted material showing Cambridge Analytica’s links to elections in Malaysia, Kenya and Brazil.

Also made available are files regarding Iran and former Trump Administration National Security Advisor John Bolton.

The account claims that Bolton paid Cambridge Analytica for psychographic targeting via his Super PAC in 2013–14. It’s further claimed that Bolton used targeted adverts to increase his public profile, convince people of the importance of National Security and to support…