CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AS A HOME PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND WHY THIEL IS BAILING OUT ON TRUMP. THE PROPAGANDA IS OUT OF CONTROL.
The biggest risk factor to Trump and his hold on the Silicon valley elite and other which used to fete him has been Cambridge analytica itself as a USSR style disinformation loop. Thiel of Silicon valley, who USED to be 100% for Trump is going AWOL due to the present completely unnecessary Conavirus butchery and also that Trump is urging Americans to die for him maybe up to 1 million deaths by November, so glorious leader Trump can avoid being prosecuted for crimes against the American nation. Note also that Fox News just outed itself as having its OWN broad casters do shows at home, which contravenes Trump's messaging about the Conavirus
Why this is important. Cambridge Analytica is re wiring the brains of 1/3 rd of America to blindly follow Trump and Cambridge Analytica is all in on the push to have Americans commit suicide in forced re opening of the US economy. This is heavily bankrolled by the Kremlin and other Russian Mafia figures who are in Putin's orbit
Only Thiel of Silicon valley objects, especially due to the coming slaughter of 1 million Americans for Donald Trumps re election and who cares about their lives ?
Also, Fox news has just recently revealed indirectly with its anchors broadcasting at HOME rather than in an office they also know full well how dangerous Conavirus really is, Trump propaganda non withstanding. See this
quote
Claire McCaskill
✔
@clairecmc
Fox News has repeatedly aired the notion that this deadly virus is a hoax, including Trump’s son last night saying it would magically disappear after the election.
So how come their hosts are broadcasting from home?
End of quote
Its time to admit it. The Trump machine, specifically geared about Cambridge analytica is cracking due to peoples reluctance to die, for Donald Trump
Here is the dibs as far as Cambridge Analytica
https://www.propagandamachine.tech/
Quote
PROPAGANDA MACHINE
Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry
This is the website for Dr Briant's ongoing research on SCL, Cambridge Analytica and the rapidly developing and opaque global influence industry. Here you can learn about her upcoming book 'Propaganda Machine: Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry' and explore her related projects including her 'Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map' researched with the invaluable help of research assistant Ben Staton.
The Researcher:
DR. EMMA L BRIANT
Dr Briant is an academic specialist in research on propaganda, influence and information warfare who was central in revealing the wrongdoing of SCL and Cambridge Analytica, contributing her expertise and evidence to investigations worldwide in 2018. Information about her research, other books and publications, related media reporting and her involvement as senior researcher in The Great Hack are available from the links below and from her personal website.
The Book:
PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- COMING SOON -
This book is an explosive investigation of Cambridge Analytica and the digital influence industry - revealing the weaponization of our everyday online activities, and the grave threat to democracy posed by an industry that is still largely unaccountable for its crimes.
The internet was meant to facilitate communication and strengthen democracy worldwide. However, as propaganda scholar Dr. Emma L. Briant reveals, powerful actors harnessed the growth of social media, turning the dream of a free internet into a manipulative mass-surveillance nightmare. War on Terror–era legislation enabled a global influence industry to weaponize our digital world for the advancement of profit, power, and political influence.
In 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its unethical parent company SCL Group catapulted to international notoriety with far-reaching consequences. Their purchase of millions of Facebook users’ data around the world triggered the second scandal of Facebook’s complicity in monetizing personal data. Yet the story of Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group remains poorly understood. With early access to interviews—many conducted before the scandal—and exclusively obtained documents, Dr. Briant offers a groundbreaking investigation of both companies and how extensive data harvesting, black ops methods, psychographic techniques, voter suppression and fear-driven messaging were deployed everywhere from the Caribbean to the Middle East, to Africa and Eastern Europe, and to the U.S. and United Kingdom.
The actions of SCL and Cambridge Analytica affected millions globally, transforming public understanding of political and social life; still our governments fail to regulate this industry, threatening democracy itself. Propaganda Machine offers unprecedented insight into an age of digital surveillant propaganda, making an impassioned plea for policy-makers to protect democracy before it’s too late.
The Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map:
The Interactive CA Map collates and analyzes reporting of the scandal-ridden company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and their subsidiary Cambridge Analytica (CA), whose wrongdoing Dr Briant was central in exposing in 2018. It maps reported global reach (1989-2018), including clients and projects. It visualizes the expanding scale and spread of their activities over time and allows you to move back and forward in time exploring projects. You can also watch SCL and Cambridge Analytica spread 'live' across the world. Click on the Cambridge Analytica-buster icon to view the map or select it from the site menu.
The interactive map was made with the help of Research Assistant Ben Staton, and an excellent Data Scientist who produced the visualization pro-bono and who prefers not to be named but whom I wish to thank here. I also wish to acknowledge important early-stages assistance from 'Amy' and Lacey Strahm. Dr Briant wishes to thank Institute for New Economic Thinking who funded her fellowship at Bard College 2019-2020.
End of quote
Once again:
Why this is important. Cambridge Analytica is re wiring the brains of 1/3 rd of America to blindly follow Trump and Cambridge Analytica is all in on the push to have Americans commit suicide in forced re opening of the US economy. This is heavily bankrolled by the Kremlin and other Russian Mafia figures who are in Putin's orbit
See the following as to the dibs on the map provided by this link
Quote
The Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map:
The Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map is the first project to collate, analyze and map reporting of the worldwide activities of scandal-ridden company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and their subsidiary Cambridge Analytica (CA) - a company whose wrongdoing Dr Emma L Briant was central in exposing in 2018. Here she maps reported global reach of all related companies (1989-2018), including clients and projects. It visualizes the expanding scale and spread of their activities over time and allows you to move back and forward in time exploring projects. You can also watch SCL and Cambridge Analytica spread 'live' across the world. Here is why Dr Briant created this...
FOCUS ON THE INFLUENCE INDUSTRY
Tens of millions of dollars are spent on disinformation research tracking online campaign messaging dissemination and consumption on social media. While valuable, this approach is not sufficient alone and often fails to identify industry creators of content, governments, elites or organizations funding it, or their ultimate strategies. We cannot fully understand the problems raised by digital influence campaigns or develop new ways to respond to them without more research into the comparatively under-researched multi-billion dollar influence industry and the politicians, governments and corporate clients who fund it.
This tool is intended to be used by journalists, NGOs, policymakers, scholars and the public to research and better understand Cambridge Analytica and their parent company SCL’s role in shaping our recent history via their worldwide projects for politics, governments and commercial clients. I hope this will inspire further study and ‘maps’ of other companies. If this industry remains opaque and research does not provide an accurate idea even of the scale of the rapidly expanding influence industry, we cannot address the policy challenge on ‘disinformation’, research adequately or equip publics or students for navigating our rapidly transforming digital world.
FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL
We also need to better understand the global scale and operations of this industry, its very unequal effects and how global company networks help obscure relationships and activities of influence firms. Journalism tends to focus on the stories it considers 'newsworthy' to its audience, those likely to get most reach. This means in Western countries journalism often neglects the experiences of other parts of the world including developing countries and focuses on the experiences of powerful Western democracies more 'relevant' to its audience's immediate experience - Brexit, Trump... The worst abuses by Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL occurred beyond the economically powerful West, in places without strong civil society or privacy protections.
Dr Emma L Briant therefore has put this map together with the invaluable assistance of Ben Staton in order to open your eyes to the world - to Cambridge Analytica's world.
We both hope this will facilitate the process of illuminating a dark industry and encourage a more global and structural way of understanding the role of influence industry firms. We hope it will encourage more journalism, more research and energize more efforts to take our world back from those who wield hidden power.
Version 1:
This represents Version 1 of the map. Importantly, it is not a comprehensive account of the companies' work and there are are gaps where projects are known to Dr Briant but have not yet been reported in the press or may not be demonstrable through already online sources. This first version of the map, while it is the most extensive and first mapping of SCL and Cambridge Analytica's projects is not comprehensive as it is compiled from only open source data and journalistic reporting. It also tracks recorded projects, not the Facebook data breach. The Facebook data breach impacted countries where CA did not yet have known projects and projects occurred in places unaffected by the Facebook data breach.
The intention of this mapping project is both to come some way toward visualizing how extensive the work of this small-medium sized influence firm was and, in so doing, to give a sense of the scale of impact of a wider and rapidly expanding multi-billion dollar influence industry. It should illustrate to policymakers the scale of the challenge.
The sheer quantity of reporting that repeats already reported and minimal information (as opposed to investigative journalism) has created 'noise' and information overload through which it becomes hard to research the company online. Dr Briant hopes this visualization tool will help researchers, activists and public alike worldwide to grasp the scale and nature of the operations of contemporary influence by governments, politicians and private corporations, through this example. She also aims to highlight for journalists and researchers places where only minimal investigation has so far occurred into these projects and to encourage further investigation.
Our Method:
We have mapped and produced an interactive visualization of open source information and journalistic reporting of activities related to the companies SCL, Cambridge Analytica and pre-bankruptcy affiliates (see a chart of different companies and affiliates here thanks to Wendy Siegelman and Ann Marlowe). Wherever possible, the most reliable, extensive and independent reporting of a project was prioritized. We tried to find reporting of the country of activities, date and client - we tried to attribute the work to the SCL Group affiliated company in the strongest reporting though reporters didn't always use these company names consistently. While there were standout examples of exceptional reporting on Cambridge Analytica (Carole Cadwalladr's research for The Observer was extensive, for instance), in some cases investigative journalism examining the worldwide projects has been incorrect, inconsistent and sometimes minimal or non-existent. In all cases, we cannot and do not here vouch for others' journalism. In a few cases, particularly where there is minimal or no journalistic reporting, the map includes content sourced from SCL's own archived website, online reports or online documents in the 'Hindsight 2020' release.
Dr Briant wishes in these cases to urge readers that they should bear in mind that companies like this one 'spin' and 'cleanse' what they put on their websites making their role sound more minimal/ethical/important/effective. Please consider this where descriptions in the map quote the company themselves in relation to their work.
We link to the source for a key quote. We have done our best to accurately reflect what was reported in the map but if you spot an inconsistency please email us.
We urge readers to write if they have spotted concrete reporting of projects not yet included in the map.
The interactive map was made with the help of an excellent data scientist who produced the visualization pro-bono and who I wish to thank here. I also wish to acknowledge important early-stages assistance from 'Amy' and Lacey Strahm.
Version 2:
This map is not yet definitive and will expand - a lot. Having researched the companies extensively for many years, Dr Briant hopes to 'go live' with Version 2 - a more extensive version of the map, which corrects some previous reporting and gives more detail. This will occur alongside publication of her book which is based on exclusive interviews and a wide range of sources and documents not presently in the public domain. Version 2 of the map will reveal what we know now to be the rest of the iceberg. It will reveal a far greater reach than is currently known with many more projects and clients worldwide you can learn more about in my upcoming book.
End of quote
Now here is Thiel saying enough
Quote
Billionaire MAGA Fan Peter Thiel Has Had It With Trump’s COVID-19 Response
‘SHIT-TALKING’
More than a dozen sources in Trump’s orbit said they could not say whether the Silicon Valley luminary was going to play any meaningful role in the election, like he did in 2016.
Updated May. 17, 2020 8:11AM ET / Published May. 17, 2020 4:49AM ET
During the last presidential campaign, Facebook board member and billionaire Peter Thiel was among Donald Trump’s most important backers, campaigning for the future president as a “proud,” openly gay supporter of the Republican nominee and even speaking at the Republican Party’s 2016 convention. Four years later, Thiel has taken on a dramatically reduced—if not altogether nonexistent—role in pushing for Trump 2020.
Though Thiel declared a year and a half ago that he supports Trump’s re-election, he so far hasn't donated large sums to any of the major Trump campaign committees, and it is unclear to various Trump lieutenants if those contributions are forthcoming. Top officials in the president’s political orbit say that Thiel has been absent from 2020 discussions, with one proclaiming the famous investor had “ghosted” Team Trump lately. And several people familiar with the situation say he has privately criticized Trump in recent months and contemplated limiting his support to other GOP or conservative-nationalist politicians such as Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, to whom he donated the legal maximum of $5,400 in 2017.
CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AS A HOME PROPAGANDA MACHINE AND WHY THIEL IS BAILING OUT ON TRUMP. THE PROPAGANDA IS OUT OF CONTROL.
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Andrew Beckwith
Editor at JHEPGC, Associate Editor in Galaxies, and Visiting Professor in Chongqing University
The biggest risk factor to Trump and his hold on the Silicon valley elite and other which used to fete him has been Cambridge analytica itself as a USSR style disinformation loop. Thiel of Silicon valley, who USED to be 100% for Trump is going AWOL due to the present completely unnecessary Conavirus butchery and also that Trump is urging Americans to die for him maybe up to 1 million deaths by November, so glorious leader Trump can avoid being prosecuted for crimes against the American nation. Note also that Fox News just outed itself as having its OWN broad casters do shows at home, which contravenes Trump's messaging about the Conavirus
Why this is important. Cambridge Analytica is re wiring the brains of 1/3 rd of America to blindly follow Trump and Cambridge Analytica is all in on the push to have Americans commit suicide in forced re opening of the US economy. This is heavily bankrolled by the Kremlin and other Russian Mafia figures who are in Putin's orbit
Only Thiel of Silicon valley objects, especially due to the coming slaughter of 1 million Americans for Donald Trumps re election and who cares about their lives ?
Also, Fox news has just recently revealed indirectly with its anchors broadcasting at HOME rather than in an office they also know full well how dangerous Conavirus really is, Trump propaganda non withstanding. See this
quote
Claire McCaskill
✔
@clairecmc
Fox News has repeatedly aired the notion that this deadly virus is a hoax, including Trump’s son last night saying it would magically disappear after the election.
So how come their hosts are broadcasting from home?
End of quote
Its time to admit it. The Trump machine, specifically geared about Cambridge analytica is cracking due to peoples reluctance to die, for Donald Trump
Here is the dibs as far as Cambridge Analytica
https://www.propagandamachine.tech/
Quote
PROPAGANDA MACHINE
Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry
This is the website for Dr Briant's ongoing research on SCL, Cambridge Analytica and the rapidly developing and opaque global influence industry. Here you can learn about her upcoming book 'Propaganda Machine: Inside Cambridge Analytica and the Digital Influence Industry' and explore her related projects including her 'Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map' researched with the invaluable help of research assistant Ben Staton.
The Researcher:
DR. EMMA L BRIANT
Dr Briant is an academic specialist in research on propaganda, influence and information warfare who was central in revealing the wrongdoing of SCL and Cambridge Analytica, contributing her expertise and evidence to investigations worldwide in 2018. Information about her research, other books and publications, related media reporting and her involvement as senior researcher in The Great Hack are available from the links below and from her personal website.
The Book:
PROPAGANDA MACHINE
- COMING SOON -
This book is an explosive investigation of Cambridge Analytica and the digital influence industry - revealing the weaponization of our everyday online activities, and the grave threat to democracy posed by an industry that is still largely unaccountable for its crimes.
The internet was meant to facilitate communication and strengthen democracy worldwide. However, as propaganda scholar Dr. Emma L. Briant reveals, powerful actors harnessed the growth of social media, turning the dream of a free internet into a manipulative mass-surveillance nightmare. War on Terror–era legislation enabled a global influence industry to weaponize our digital world for the advancement of profit, power, and political influence.
In 2018, Cambridge Analytica and its unethical parent company SCL Group catapulted to international notoriety with far-reaching consequences. Their purchase of millions of Facebook users’ data around the world triggered the second scandal of Facebook’s complicity in monetizing personal data. Yet the story of Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group remains poorly understood. With early access to interviews—many conducted before the scandal—and exclusively obtained documents, Dr. Briant offers a groundbreaking investigation of both companies and how extensive data harvesting, black ops methods, psychographic techniques, voter suppression and fear-driven messaging were deployed everywhere from the Caribbean to the Middle East, to Africa and Eastern Europe, and to the U.S. and United Kingdom.
The actions of SCL and Cambridge Analytica affected millions globally, transforming public understanding of political and social life; still our governments fail to regulate this industry, threatening democracy itself. Propaganda Machine offers unprecedented insight into an age of digital surveillant propaganda, making an impassioned plea for policy-makers to protect democracy before it’s too late.
The Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map:
The Interactive CA Map collates and analyzes reporting of the scandal-ridden company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and their subsidiary Cambridge Analytica (CA), whose wrongdoing Dr Briant was central in exposing in 2018. It maps reported global reach (1989-2018), including clients and projects. It visualizes the expanding scale and spread of their activities over time and allows you to move back and forward in time exploring projects. You can also watch SCL and Cambridge Analytica spread 'live' across the world. Click on the Cambridge Analytica-buster icon to view the map or select it from the site menu.
The interactive map was made with the help of Research Assistant Ben Staton, and an excellent Data Scientist who produced the visualization pro-bono and who prefers not to be named but whom I wish to thank here. I also wish to acknowledge important early-stages assistance from 'Amy' and Lacey Strahm. Dr Briant wishes to thank Institute for New Economic Thinking who funded her fellowship at Bard College 2019-2020.
End of quote
Once again:
Why this is important. Cambridge Analytica is re wiring the brains of 1/3 rd of America to blindly follow Trump and Cambridge Analytica is all in on the push to have Americans commit suicide in forced re opening of the US economy. This is heavily bankrolled by the Kremlin and other Russian Mafia figures who are in Putin's orbit
See the following as to the dibs on the map provided by this link
Quote
The Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map:
The Interactive Cambridge Analytica Map is the first project to collate, analyze and map reporting of the worldwide activities of scandal-ridden company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and their subsidiary Cambridge Analytica (CA) - a company whose wrongdoing Dr Emma L Briant was central in exposing in 2018. Here she maps reported global reach of all related companies (1989-2018), including clients and projects. It visualizes the expanding scale and spread of their activities over time and allows you to move back and forward in time exploring projects. You can also watch SCL and Cambridge Analytica spread 'live' across the world. Here is why Dr Briant created this...
FOCUS ON THE INFLUENCE INDUSTRY
Tens of millions of dollars are spent on disinformation research tracking online campaign messaging dissemination and consumption on social media. While valuable, this approach is not sufficient alone and often fails to identify industry creators of content, governments, elites or organizations funding it, or their ultimate strategies. We cannot fully understand the problems raised by digital influence campaigns or develop new ways to respond to them without more research into the comparatively under-researched multi-billion dollar influence industry and the politicians, governments and corporate clients who fund it.
This tool is intended to be used by journalists, NGOs, policymakers, scholars and the public to research and better understand Cambridge Analytica and their parent company SCL’s role in shaping our recent history via their worldwide projects for politics, governments and commercial clients. I hope this will inspire further study and ‘maps’ of other companies. If this industry remains opaque and research does not provide an accurate idea even of the scale of the rapidly expanding influence industry, we cannot address the policy challenge on ‘disinformation’, research adequately or equip publics or students for navigating our rapidly transforming digital world.
FOCUS ON THE GLOBAL
We also need to better understand the global scale and operations of this industry, its very unequal effects and how global company networks help obscure relationships and activities of influence firms. Journalism tends to focus on the stories it considers 'newsworthy' to its audience, those likely to get most reach. This means in Western countries journalism often neglects the experiences of other parts of the world including developing countries and focuses on the experiences of powerful Western democracies more 'relevant' to its audience's immediate experience - Brexit, Trump... The worst abuses by Cambridge Analytica and its parent company SCL occurred beyond the economically powerful West, in places without strong civil society or privacy protections.
Dr Emma L Briant therefore has put this map together with the invaluable assistance of Ben Staton in order to open your eyes to the world - to Cambridge Analytica's world.
We both hope this will facilitate the process of illuminating a dark industry and encourage a more global and structural way of understanding the role of influence industry firms. We hope it will encourage more journalism, more research and energize more efforts to take our world back from those who wield hidden power.
Version 1:
This represents Version 1 of the map. Importantly, it is not a comprehensive account of the companies' work and there are are gaps where projects are known to Dr Briant but have not yet been reported in the press or may not be demonstrable through already online sources. This first version of the map, while it is the most extensive and first mapping of SCL and Cambridge Analytica's projects is not comprehensive as it is compiled from only open source data and journalistic reporting. It also tracks recorded projects, not the Facebook data breach. The Facebook data breach impacted countries where CA did not yet have known projects and projects occurred in places unaffected by the Facebook data breach.
The intention of this mapping project is both to come some way toward visualizing how extensive the work of this small-medium sized influence firm was and, in so doing, to give a sense of the scale of impact of a wider and rapidly expanding multi-billion dollar influence industry. It should illustrate to policymakers the scale of the challenge.
The sheer quantity of reporting that repeats already reported and minimal information (as opposed to investigative journalism) has created 'noise' and information overload through which it becomes hard to research the company online. Dr Briant hopes this visualization tool will help researchers, activists and public alike worldwide to grasp the scale and nature of the operations of contemporary influence by governments, politicians and private corporations, through this example. She also aims to highlight for journalists and researchers places where only minimal investigation has so far occurred into these projects and to encourage further investigation.
Our Method:
We have mapped and produced an interactive visualization of open source information and journalistic reporting of activities related to the companies SCL, Cambridge Analytica and pre-bankruptcy affiliates (see a chart of different companies and affiliates here thanks to Wendy Siegelman and Ann Marlowe). Wherever possible, the most reliable, extensive and independent reporting of a project was prioritized. We tried to find reporting of the country of activities, date and client - we tried to attribute the work to the SCL Group affiliated company in the strongest reporting though reporters didn't always use these company names consistently. While there were standout examples of exceptional reporting on Cambridge Analytica (Carole Cadwalladr's research for The Observer was extensive, for instance), in some cases investigative journalism examining the worldwide projects has been incorrect, inconsistent and sometimes minimal or non-existent. In all cases, we cannot and do not here vouch for others' journalism. In a few cases, particularly where there is minimal or no journalistic reporting, the map includes content sourced from SCL's own archived website, online reports or online documents in the 'Hindsight 2020' release.
Dr Briant wishes in these cases to urge readers that they should bear in mind that companies like this one 'spin' and 'cleanse' what they put on their websites making their role sound more minimal/ethical/important/effective. Please consider this where descriptions in the map quote the company themselves in relation to their work.
We link to the source for a key quote. We have done our best to accurately reflect what was reported in the map but if you spot an inconsistency please email us.
We urge readers to write if they have spotted concrete reporting of projects not yet included in the map.
The interactive map was made with the help of an excellent data scientist who produced the visualization pro-bono and who I wish to thank here. I also wish to acknowledge important early-stages assistance from 'Amy' and Lacey Strahm.
Version 2:
This map is not yet definitive and will expand - a lot. Having researched the companies extensively for many years, Dr Briant hopes to 'go live' with Version 2 - a more extensive version of the map, which corrects some previous reporting and gives more detail. This will occur alongside publication of her book which is based on exclusive interviews and a wide range of sources and documents not presently in the public domain. Version 2 of the map will reveal what we know now to be the rest of the iceberg. It will reveal a far greater reach than is currently known with many more projects and clients worldwide you can learn more about in my upcoming book.
End of quote
Now here is Thiel saying enough
Quote
Billionaire MAGA Fan Peter Thiel Has Had It With Trump’s COVID-19 Response
‘SHIT-TALKING’
More than a dozen sources in Trump’s orbit said they could not say whether the Silicon Valley luminary was going to play any meaningful role in the election, like he did in 2016.
Updated May. 17, 2020 8:11AM ET / Published May. 17, 2020 4:49AM ET
During the last presidential campaign, Facebook board member and billionaire Peter Thiel was among Donald Trump’s most important backers, campaigning for the future president as a “proud,” openly gay supporter of the Republican nominee and even speaking at the Republican Party’s 2016 convention. Four years later, Thiel has taken on a dramatically reduced—if not altogether nonexistent—role in pushing for Trump 2020.
Though Thiel declared a year and a half ago that he supports Trump’s re-election, he so far hasn't donated large sums to any of the major Trump campaign committees, and it is unclear to various Trump lieutenants if those contributions are forthcoming. Top officials in the president’s political orbit say that Thiel has been absent from 2020 discussions, with one proclaiming the famous investor had “ghosted” Team Trump lately. And several people familiar with the situation say he has privately criticized Trump in recent months and contemplated limiting his support to other GOP or conservative-nationalist politicians such as Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, to whom he donated the legal maximum of $5,400 in 2017.
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Team Trump Turns to Peter Thiel’s Palantir to Track Virus
Erin Banco,
Spencer Ackerman
Thiel’s cold front has come as the data-mining firm that he co-founded has been raking it in from federal contracts with the Trump administration, including a recent deal to help build what the government hoped would be “the single source” for data to understand and mitigate the effects of the coronavirus. But, as it were, sources say the heart of Thiel’s disaffection with the president is Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
One person in Thiel’s circle tells The Daily Beast that Thiel has been “shit-talking” Trump over what he views as the president’s hamfisted and botched handling of the pandemic that has resulted in a stalled economy, massive job losses, and a U.S. death toll approaching 90,000. Another person familiar with Thiel’s recent griping said that Thiel was “clearly very frustrated” with the president’s uneven public appearances, particularly the daily White House press briefings Trump held that often ended in head-scratching pronouncements or politically disastrous boasts.
In that regard, Thiel was hardly alone. Trump’s briefings got so bad that his own most senior advisers were urging him to cut down on them, arguing to him directly that these hours-long briefings were tanking his poll numbers and handing a gift to Team Biden. But for a once-declared MAGA diehard to feel this way underscores the degree of self-inflicted damage Trump may have done.
“Everybody goes into the Trump relationship woodchipper,” said Trump’s former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who worked on the Trump presidential transition team with Thiel and who had his own falling-out with the president. “You either come out on the other side with your dignity and your personal story intact or you’re reformed as Trump compost and you’re fertilizer under his shoe. You have to make a decision and it happens to everyone.”
The Daily Beast asked more than a dozen Trump campaign officials, White House aides, and others close to the president and involved in his re-election effort if Thiel had been quietly working with Team Trump on anything 2020 or campaign cash-related, if there had been any meaningful contact in the past three months, or if Thiel had come up in any planning conversations, even in passing. None could offer any examples, and each said they weren’t aware of anything of that nature.
“He ghosted us,” a senior 2020 Trump campaign source said bluntly. “If anything [new] has happened, I haven’t heard about it.”
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The White House and Trump campaign did not provide comment. The Daily Beast emailed Thiel and his representative a detailed list of questions and gave them multiple opportunities to comment. They did not respond, though in this case, the money—or lack thereof—may tell the story.
Though a major financial supporter of Trump and other Republican politicians in the past, Thiel has donated nothing to the president’s re-election campaign or the Republican National Committee since 2018, according to the most recent available Federal Election Commission data. He’s donated to just one federal political candidate since last year: former Kansas secretary of state and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach, an anti-immigration hardliner and Trump buddy. Thiel has also backed a super PAC supporting Kobach’s Senate bid, and last year chipped in $5,000 for Facebook’s political action committee.
May of an election year is, historically, when Thiel begins to truly open up his wallet to the political candidates he supports, suggesting that FEC filings covering the second quarter of 2020, which will be filed in July, might show new beneficiaries of his support, including Trump. Thiel began donating to Trump’s 2016 campaign in July of that year. But he also continued providing financial support to the Trump re-elect through the midterm election season, with his last donation to the president coming on July 10, 2018.
To those who know the tech investor, his softening on his pro-Trump position doesn’t come as a shock, as he is known to be mercurial with his support for political figures, according to two people familiar with Thiel’s public relations and personal calculus.
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Like so many other prominent right-leaning members of the industry and political elite who now profess their love of Trump, Thiel bashed Trump first before becoming a defender. During a 2014 conversation with conservative commentator Jamie Weinstein, then of the Daily Caller, Thiel dinged Trump as “sort of symptomatic of everything that is wrong with New York City.”
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In August 2017, BuzzFeed News published a story on how Thiel had been telling friends that he believed there was a 50-50 chance the Trump presidency “ends in disaster,” even as he was publicly singing Trump’s praises and flexing his influence with the 45th president’s inner circle and policymakers such as the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. In May 2018, CNBC reported that certain allies of the president were sounding the alarm that Thiel might not open his wallet for 2018 GOP congressional campaigns “after being given the cold shoulder by some White House officials.”
Thiel ended up giving to the Republican Party anyway, and in November 2018, just days before the midterm elections, Thiel was on-stage at a conference lauding President Trump as “relatively successful” and promising his support for the 2020 race, according to a Bloomberg report.
While Thiel may be cold on Trump because of, among other things, the handling of coronavirus, he’s not altogether removed from the president’s orbit. NBC News revealed that he and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined at the White House with Trump in October. And even before COVID-19 overtook America, Palantir, which Thiel co-founded, had increased its contracting business with the government astronomically, capped by a piece of an $800 million data-management contract with the Pentagon. Since then, it’s drawn on its decade-long relationship with U.S. health agencies to become one of the data-mining companies of choice for tracking coronavirus logistics issues.
On April 22, according to federal contracting records, the firm inked a relatively small $7.5 million deal to form the backbone of a platform for the Department of Health and Human Services, called HHS Protect Now, for integrating large amounts of coronavirus-relevant data from around the country.
—With additional reporting by Spencer Ackerman
Now about Fox news indirectly but irrefutably giving the LIE to Trump's conavirus LYING
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Fox News just got reamed
Bill Palmer | 6:00 pm EDT May 17, 2020
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Even as Donald Trump and his surrogates continue to spin the coronavirus as being either a huge challenge that Trump has heroically conquered, or a hoax that never existed, various Fox News hosts have played along with this dangerous lunacy. That makes them complicit in at least some of the coronavirus deaths we’ve seen.
Here’s the thing, though. Fox News hosts themselves are giving away that they know the coronavirus isn’t a hoax. Former Senator Claire McCaskill just spelled out precisely why:
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Fox News has repeatedly aired the notion that this deadly virus is a hoax, including Trump’s son last night saying it would magically disappear after the election.
So how come their hosts are broadcasting from home?
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Its time to admit it. The Trump machine, specifically geared about Cambridge analytica is cracking due to peoples reluctance to die, for Donald Trump
When will there be more Thiels who leave Trump due to the Conavirus ? I predict MANY more as Trump's inattention to the Conavirus pandemic kills over a million Americans
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The biggest risk factor to Trump and his hold on the Silicon valley elite and other which used to fete him has been Cambridge analytica itself as a USSR style disinformation loop. Thiel of Silicon valley, who USED to be 100% for Trump is going AWOL due to the unnecessary Conavirus butchery and also that Trump is urging Americans to die for him maybe up to 1 million deaths by November, so glorious leader Trump can avoid being prosecuted for crimes against the American nation. Note also that Fox News just outed itself as having its OWN broad casters do shows at home, which contravenes Trump's messaging
Why this is important. Cambridge Analytica is re wiring the brains of 1/3 rd of America to blindly follow Trump and Cambridge Analytica is all in on the push to have Americans commit suicide in forced re opening of the US economy. This is heavily bankrolled by the Kremlin and other Russian Mafia figures who are in Putin's orbit
Only Thiel of Silicon valley objects, due to the coming slaughter of 1 million Americans for Donald Trumps re election ?
Also, Fox news has just recently revealed indirectly with its anchors broadcasting at HOME rather than in an office they also know full well how dangerous Conavirus really is, Trump propaganda non withstanding.
Team Trump Turns to Peter Thiel’s Palantir to Track Virus
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Thiel’s cold front has come as the data-mining firm that he co-founded has been raking it in from federal contracts with the Trump administration, including a recent deal to help build what the government hoped would be “the single source” for data to understand and mitigate the effects of the coronavirus. But, as it were, sources say the heart of Thiel’s disaffection with the president is Trump’s handling of the coronavirus crisis.
One person in Thiel’s circle tells The Daily Beast that Thiel has been “shit-talking” Trump over what he views as the president’s hamfisted and botched handling of the pandemic that has resulted in a stalled economy, massive job losses, and a U.S. death toll approaching 90,000. Another person familiar with Thiel’s recent griping said that Thiel was “clearly very frustrated” with the president’s uneven public appearances, particularly the daily White House press briefings Trump held that often ended in head-scratching pronouncements or politically disastrous boasts.
In that regard, Thiel was hardly alone. Trump’s briefings got so bad that his own most senior advisers were urging him to cut down on them, arguing to him directly that these hours-long briefings were tanking his poll numbers and handing a gift to Team Biden. But for a once-declared MAGA diehard to feel this way underscores the degree of self-inflicted damage Trump may have done.
“Everybody goes into the Trump relationship woodchipper,” said Trump’s former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who worked on the Trump presidential transition team with Thiel and who had his own falling-out with the president. “You either come out on the other side with your dignity and your personal story intact or you’re reformed as Trump compost and you’re fertilizer under his shoe. You have to make a decision and it happens to everyone.”
The Daily Beast asked more than a dozen Trump campaign officials, White House aides, and others close to the president and involved in his re-election effort if Thiel had been quietly working with Team Trump on anything 2020 or campaign cash-related, if there had been any meaningful contact in the past three months, or if Thiel had come up in any planning conversations, even in passing. None could offer any examples, and each said they weren’t aware of anything of that nature.
“He ghosted us,” a senior 2020 Trump campaign source said bluntly. “If anything [new] has happened, I haven’t heard about it.”
The White House and Trump campaign did not provide comment. The Daily Beast emailed Thiel and his representative a detailed list of questions and gave them multiple opportunities to comment. They did not respond, though in this case, the money—or lack thereof—may tell the story.
Though a major financial supporter of Trump and other Republican politicians in the past, Thiel has donated nothing to the president’s re-election campaign or the Republican National Committee since 2018, according to the most recent available Federal Election Commission data. He’s donated to just one federal political candidate since last year: former Kansas secretary of state and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kris Kobach, an anti-immigration hardliner and Trump buddy. Thiel has also backed a super PAC supporting Kobach’s Senate bid, and last year chipped in $5,000 for Facebook’s political action committee.
May of an election year is, historically, when Thiel begins to truly open up his wallet to the political candidates he supports, suggesting that FEC filings covering the second quarter of 2020, which will be filed in July, might show new beneficiaries of his support, including Trump. Thiel began donating to Trump’s 2016 campaign in July of that year. But he also continued providing financial support to the Trump re-elect through the midterm election season, with his last donation to the president coming on July 10, 2018.
To those who know the tech investor, his softening on his pro-Trump position doesn’t come as a shock, as he is known to be mercurial with his support for political figures, according to two people familiar with Thiel’s public relations and personal calculus.
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Like so many other prominent right-leaning members of the industry and political elite who now profess their love of Trump, Thiel bashed Trump first before becoming a defender. During a 2014 conversation with conservative commentator Jamie Weinstein, then of the Daily Caller, Thiel dinged Trump as “sort of symptomatic of everything that is wrong with New York City.”
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“Billionaire Tech Investor Peter Thiel believes Google should be investigated for treason. He accuses Google of working with the Chinese Government.” @foxandfriends A great and brilliant guy who knows this subject better than anyone! The Trump Administration will take a look!
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In August 2017, BuzzFeed News published a story on how Thiel had been telling friends that he believed there was a 50-50 chance the Trump presidency “ends in disaster,” even as he was publicly singing Trump’s praises and flexing his influence with the 45th president’s inner circle and policymakers such as the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. In May 2018, CNBC reported that certain allies of the president were sounding the alarm that Thiel might not open his wallet for 2018 GOP congressional campaigns “after being given the cold shoulder by some White House officials.”
Thiel ended up giving to the Republican Party anyway, and in November 2018, just days before the midterm elections, Thiel was on-stage at a conference lauding President Trump as “relatively successful” and promising his support for the 2020 race, according to a Bloomberg report.
While Thiel may be cold on Trump because of, among other things, the handling of coronavirus, he’s not altogether removed from the president’s orbit. NBC News revealed that he and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg dined at the White House with Trump in October. And even before COVID-19 overtook America, Palantir, which Thiel co-founded, had increased its contracting business with the government astronomically, capped by a piece of an $800 million data-management contract with the Pentagon. Since then, it’s drawn on its decade-long relationship with U.S. health agencies to become one of the data-mining companies of choice for tracking coronavirus logistics issues.
On April 22, according to federal contracting records, the firm inked a relatively small $7.5 million deal to form the backbone of a platform for the Department of Health and Human Services, called HHS Protect Now, for integrating large amounts of coronavirus-relevant data from around the country.
—With additional reporting by Spencer Ackerman
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Fox News just got reamed
Bill Palmer | 6:00 pm EDT May 17, 2020
Even as Donald Trump and his surrogates continue to spin the coronavirus as being either a huge challenge that Trump has heroically conquered, or a hoax that never existed, various Fox News hosts have played along with this dangerous lunacy. That makes them complicit in at least some of the coronavirus deaths we’ve seen.
Here’s the thing, though. Fox News hosts themselves are giving away that they know the coronavirus isn’t a hoax. Former Senator Claire McCaskill just spelled out precisely why:
Claire McCaskill
✔
@clairecmc
Fox News has repeatedly aired the notion that this deadly virus is a hoax, including Trump’s son last night saying it would magically disappear after the election.
So how come their hosts are broadcasting from home?
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Once again
Its time to admit it. The Trump machine, specifically geared about Cambridge analytica is cracking due to peoples reluctance to die, for Donald Trump
When will there be more Thiels who leave Trump due to the Conavirus ? I predict MANY more as Trump's inattention to the Conavirus pandemic kills over a million Americans
Andrew Beckwith, PhD