{"id":27788,"date":"2018-03-20T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27788"},"modified":"2018-03-20T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:17:55","slug":"shilling-for-the-fellow-who-brings-the-sheep-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27788","title":{"rendered":"Shilling for the fellow who brings the sheep in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/exposed-undercover-secrets-of-donald-trump-data-firm-cambridge-analytica\">Shilling for the fellow who bilks the herd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran \u2018all\u2019 of President Trump\u2019s digital campaign \u2013 and may have broken election law. As the report went on air, the firm announced it has suspended chief executive Alexander Nix, pending a full investigation.<\/p>\n<p>An undercover investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran key parts of the presidential campaign for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The British data company was secretly filmed discussing coordination between Trump\u2019s campaign and outside groups \u2013 an activity which is potentially illegal.<\/p>\n<p>Executives claimed they \u201cran all the digital campaign, the television campaign and our data informed all the strategy\u201d for President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In the third part of a Channel 4 News investigation into Cambridge Analytica, bosses also talked about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The full scale of their pivotal work in Trump\u2019s election win\n<li>How they avoid Congressional investigations into their foreign clients\n<li>Setting up proxy organisations to feed untraceable messages onto social media\n<li>Using a secret email system where messages self-destruct and leave no trace\n<li>Cambridge Analytica\u2019s involvement in the \u201cDefeat Crooked Hilary\u201d brand of attack ads\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=27745\">pSong<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shilling for the fellow who bilks the herd: An investigation by Channel 4 News has revealed how Cambridge Analytica claims it ran \u2018all\u2019 of President Trump\u2019s digital campaign \u2013 and may have broken election law. As the report went on air, the firm announced it has suspended chief executive Alexander Nix, pending a full investigation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27795,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27788\/revisions\/27795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}