Psychological projection...
President Donald Trump claims Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election will themselves meddle in the 2018 election.
Then again Trump just tweeted: "one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water"
Data Propria is a company formed in 2018.[1][2][4] It is managed by Cambridge Analytica's former head of product, Matt Oczkowski, and employs at least three other former Cambridge Analytica staffers[11][8]including Cambridge Analytica's former chief data scientist,[8] David Wilkinson.[4][6] It is reportedly working on the 2020 Donald Trump presidential campaign.[8]
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In June 2018, Oczkowski and Parscale confirmed that Data Propria had signed a contract with the Republican Party's governing body (the RNC), to assist the party in the 2018 midterm US elections.[8]
In June 2018, Data Propria was sent an open letter by U.S. Representatives Michael F. Doyle, Frank Pallone, and Jan Schakowsky.[16][17] The letter asked Data Propria to confirm the provenance of its datasets, and especially whether they contain material improperly acquired from Facebook by Aleksandr Kogan or Cambridge Analytica.[16][17]
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Cambridge Analytica stated that the data obtained from Kogan was not used in the 2016 presidential campaigns of Donald Trump, and Ted Cruz.[7]
According to the Associated Press, a company run by former officials at Cambridge Analytica, Data Propria, has been quietly working for President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election effort.[8]
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No one should be complacent, since the same people have not yet been brought to justice (yet).
(March 2018)
The good news is that, so far as we know, no ballots were altered nor any votes suppressed in 2016 as a result of the Russian government’s cyberattacks.
But, plainly, the steps we took in the prior administration have not been enough to deter Russian attempts to influence our democracy.
How do we know this?
Last month U.S. intelligence chiefs warned us that the United States remains “under attack,” and that “persistent and disruptive cyber operations” by the Russians will continue “using election opportunities to undermine our democracy.”
- First, the hacking and unwanted exfiltration and theft of data. There are the standard cybersecurity measures we must all pursue. Investments in better technology, public-private information sharing, and greater awareness by those who use our systems about the evils of phishing and spear phishing, are the basic answers.
- Second, in 2016, we had a wake-up call, and certain vulnerabilities to our election infrastructure were exposed. Building on my designation of election infrastructure as critical infrastructure in January 2017, the current Department of Homeland Security, through the leadership of Assistant Secretary Jeanette Manfra, is taking serious steps to work with state and local election officials to strengthen their cybersecurity.
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There is a lot of work to do, and the 2018 midterm election season is now.
- Third, and finally, is the problem that can be considered a form of cyberattack, but not exclusively so—it is the problem of fake news and hateful, extreme views published and republished on the internet, used as a weapon by foreign and domestic forces to seek to alter elections, sow discord, or alter public opinion generally.The recent indictment of 13 Russian individuals by the Special Counsel highlights that this, too, was part of the Russian attack against us in 2016. And, it may be years before we understand the full extent this aspect of the Russian attack had on our democracy in 2016.
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"one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water"