The newly appointed national security adviser, John Bolton and his political action committee hired Cambridge Analytica back in 2014 to conduct to “develop psychological profiles of voters with data harvested from tens of millions of Facebook profiles,” according to The New York Times.
Bolton wasn’t running for anything but his conservative PAC wanted to support like-minded conservative candidates and so with Cambridge’s help, they targeted millions of potential voters to predict how they might cast ballots based on data collected from their Facebook accounts. But for Bolton, it went deeper than that.
Christopher Wylie worked for Cambridge and has since become a whistleblower about what the company was up to.
According to The Times:
- “The Bolton PAC was obsessed with how America was becoming limp wristed and spineless and it wanted research and messaging for national security issues,” Mr. Wylie said.
- “That really meant making people more militaristic in their worldview,” he added. “That’s what they said they wanted, anyway.”
Bolton and Cambridge have another connection. Billionaire conservative Robert Mercer who has supported both.
Bolton, like Trump, owes much to hard-right hedge fund donor Robert Mercer. Mercer has donated $5M to Bolton's super-pac since 2013, and is Bolton's biggest donor. Bolton has relied on Cambridge Analytica, which Mercer helped found and fund, like Trump, too. Big Mercer influence. https://t.co/Bo7nUWaAkj
— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) March 22, 2018