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The company has repeatedly claimed it helped Donald Trump win the US presidency and got the Brexiters' "Leave" cause over the line has arrived in Australia. According to Reuters, Cambridge Analytica has registered an office in Maroubra, Sydney, and Liberal Party director Tony Nutt says the party plans to meet company …

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  1. TReko

    Good article

    A great analysis!

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  2. veti Silver badge

    Great Barrier Firewall

    While acknowledging the scepticism, I can't help but feel you're being possibly over-complacent here. Clinton and Cameron both under-estimated these fsckers, and look what happened to them.

    But Australia has a good option at this point: block Facebook from the whole country. Don't wait, do it now and watch national productivity surge.

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    1. GrumpyOldBloke
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      Re: Great Barrier Firewall

      Block facebook! That leaves the oldies banging away on various flavours of solitaire - and they vote.

      Brexit and Trump were about trying a different path, an easy sell. In Oz the task for the ALPLNP is to try and get the 25% or so of very unhappy voters plus the swingers to accept the status quo. A much harder sell.

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  3. Winkypop Silver badge
    Meh

    Different fleas

    Same rats

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  4. Francis Boyle Silver badge

    I you're being a tad sanguine about this, Richard

    The reason you or I get Lexus ads is the same reason we get spam - If you have a small target and low ammunition costs it's easier to just blast away in the general area and not worry about the collateral damage (which doesn't really hurt the person with the gun). But when you need surgical precision - say you need to tell the rednecks what a great pussygrabber you are while assuring the evangelicals that you support Christian values - then it's worthwhile paying to bring in a sniper.

    That said, I'm not exactly panicking. The techniques a bit like flying planes into buildings - you really only get to use it once before coutermeasures are developed.

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  5. Andy Mac
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    Australia seems perfectly capable of voting in right-wing morons without the help of Cambridge Analytica.

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    1. druck Silver badge
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      Re: Not Required

      Australia's major parties are Labour and Liberal, morons perhaps, right wing not so much.

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  6. FozzyBear
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    To All Aussie political parties

    Here's a fucking idea.

    Rather than of engaging companies like this to help you win the election and pissing more of the taxpayers money against the wall. How about you actually do something in the nations interests. You know like you're supposed to do.

    Stop pandering to the special interest groups. Stop vomiting statements you think the public wants to hear or that you think will win you brownie points or you think will get you reelected. You make a promise fucking keep it

    Why is it in politics the scum and clueless always rises to the top.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    Nutt compromised?

    Cambridge Analytica has Russian ownership according to VeteransToday http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/04/04/microtargeting-america-to-ignore-a-compromised-presidency/ ....And now Nutt has resigned.

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