Mayer, Mercer, Money, Mercy

[Thailandnotes]

Read Jane Mayer's book on the Mercer family....Dark Money.

This snippet from an interview with Hillary Clinton has me searching. Anyone here got a sense of this?

"The Kenya election was just overturned. That election was also a project of Cambridge Analytica, the data company owned by the Mercer family that was instrumental in the Brexit vote."

[Mega]

Re: Mayer, Mercer, Money, Mercy

Ah......................Going "Alex Jones" on me?

[dcarrigg]

Re: Mayer, Mercer, Money, Mercy

Read Jane Mayer's book on the Mercer family....Dark Money.

This snippet from an interview with Hillary Clinton has me searching. Anyone here got a sense of this?

"The Kenya election was just overturned. That election was also a project of Cambridge Analytica, the data company owned by the Mercer family that was instrumental in the Brexit vote."

FWIW, from what I hear on the US side, the salesmen at Cambridge Analytica are better than the product. Very flashy effective sales team with very secretive ominous PR pitch as part of the schtick. The Brexit and Trump victories aside, they don't do particularly well. They couldn't get Kelly Ayotte to win her race in NH, even as an incumbent with a relatively famous local name and lots of free press. But they won for Heck and Tillis and Cotton. Still they also lost for Robinson in NC. And they pushed Cruz before they hopped to Trump. I think they've done about 50 races in the US so far, and I don't think they're running much better than 50/50. Maybe they can coordinate with SCL and Breitbart and the Mercers and others to wag the dog a bit with the national narrative. But they don't seem to be quite as effective at the local level. At least not yet.

That said, the Kenya election was very messed up as I recall. Didn't the election commissioner and his head IT guy end up dead, then all the paper ballots went missing and they sent them over text messages or something like that? I don't recall the deep detail, but I recall that it was a very shady election. That said, was it Cambridge or the existing powers in Kenya that made it shady? Could have been a combo of the two. Or Cambridge could have just legitimately sold its data product and the regime wanted to make certain it won anyways so did shady things on the side.

To what extent to they make up fake news? Well, that's kind of SCL's bread and butter, right? But it wouldn't be the first time lies and rumors were spread during a political campaign. Are they better than others at targeting social media users with the right kinds of lies and rumors? Maybe. But not so decisively they have an extraordinary win rate in the US.