Sources on how Cambridge Analytica milked Mercer-backed GOP candidates, including Cruz campaign, which paid $5.8M and compared the firm to a Ponzi scheme
Andy Kroll / Mother Jones : Tweets: @keith_ng , @jayrosen_nyu , @andykroll , @annmarlowe , @jerry_jtaylor , @clarajeffery , @clarajeffery , @mattkmoore , @politicoryan , and @persuasivepr See also Mediagazer Tweets: Keith Ng / @keith_ng : Last CA tweet: This @motherjones story is great and important: Puts their actual Veep-level incompetence alongside their self-proclaimed House-of-Cards-level villainy. http://www.motherjones.com/... Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu : For non-specialists, this is the best thing I have read on Cambridge Analytica's role in the 2016 elections. https://www.motherjones.com/ ... Andy Kroll / @andykroll : Cambridge Analytica said it could move the minds of American voters. Its main feat? Getting into the heads of Republican megadonors. http://www.motherjones.com/... Ann Marlowe / @annmarlowe : Comprehensive article on rise & fall of Cambridge Analytica. Some gems. Overall message what I've said for years: they don't know anything about data; they do illegal things http://www.motherjones.com/... via @MotherJones Jerry Taylor / @jerry_jtaylor : “By most accounts, Cambridge Analytica's main feat of political persuasion was convincing a group of Republican donors, candidates, and organizations to hand over millions of dollars.” What a bunch of grifters. Given the principals, I'm not a bit surprised http://www.motherjones.com/... Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery : 3/ “Nix the salesman is an artist, to be honest,” one told me. Another referred to him as a “chancer,” the British term for a consummate opportunist. “He'll always be like, ‘Can I give it a go? Can I sell this to you and work out the details afterward?’” Clara Jeffery / @clarajeffery : 2/ Here are some quotes from people who worked with or for Cambridge Analytica: “It was like an internal Ponzi scheme” “They're just full of shit, right?” “Marketing materials aren't given under oath.” Matthew Moore / @mattkmoore : Cool-headed and well-informed piece on the actually very minor role Cambridge Analytica played in Trump campaign. Essentially: flaky, incompetent chancers http://www.motherjones.com/... Ryan Heath / @politicoryan : This is quite the Cambridge Analytica story by @motherjones - indicated via primary sources that Facebook knew in 2015 about CA's data-scraping of friends of people who took the quiz, and simply accepted CA's word the data had been deleted http://www.motherjones.com/... @persuasivepr : “In Aug 2015, one of Cambridge consultants came clean. Ripon “doesn't exist,” he said, according to former Cruz staffers. “It'll never exist. I've just resigned because I can't stand lying to you every day anymore.” “It was like an internal Ponzi scheme,” a Cruz campaign official http://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer