trump efforts to suppress African American voters revealed

NewRoxFan · Sep 28, 2020

Channel 4 in Britain is now distributing its film which shows, in detail, how Donald Trump and Russian intelligence worked to keep Black Americans from voting.

Revealed: Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016
3.5 million Black Americans were profiled and categorised as ‘Deterrence’ by Trump campaign – voters they wanted to stay home on election day

Channel 4 News has exclusively obtained a vast cache of data used by Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign on almost 200 million American voters. It reveals that 3.5 million Black Americans were categorised by Donald Trump’s campaign as ‘Deterrence’ – voters they wanted to stay home on election day. Tonight, civil rights campaigners said the evidence amounted to a new form of voter “suppression” and called on Facebook to disclose ads and targeting information that has never been made public. The ‘Deterrence’ project can be revealed after Channel 4 News obtained the database used by Trump’s digital campaign team – credited with helping deliver his shock victory to become president four years ago.
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Vast in scale, it contains details on almost 200 million Americans, among more than 5,000 files, which together amass almost 5 terabytes of data – making it one of the biggest leaks in history. It reveals not only the huge amounts of data held on every individual voter, but how that data was used and manipulated by models and algorithms. In 16 key battleground states, millions of Americans were separated by an algorithm into one of eight categories, also described as ‘audiences’, so they could then be targeted with tailored ads on Facebook and other platforms. One of the categories was named ‘Deterrence’, which was later described publicly by Trump’s chief data scientist as containing people that the campaign “hope don’t show up to vote”.
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Analysis by Channel 4 News shows Black Americans – historically a community targeted with voter suppression tactics – were disproportionately marked ‘Deterrence’ by the 2016 campaign. In total, 3.5 million Black Americans were marked ‘Deterrence’. In Georgia, despite Black people constituting 32% of the population, they made up 61% of the ‘Deterrence’ category. In North Carolina, Black people are 22% of the population but were 46% of ‘Deterrence’. In Wisconsin, Black people constitute just 5.4% of the population but made up 17% of ‘Deterrence’. The disproportionate categorising of Black Americans for ‘Deterrence’ is seen across the US. Overall, people of colour labelled as Black, Hispanic, Asian and ‘Other’ groups made up 54% of the ‘Deterrence’ category. In contrast, other categories of voters the campaign wished to attract were overwhelmingly white.
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The 2016 campaign preceded the first fall in Black turnout in 20 years and allowed Donald Trump to take shock victories in key states like Wisconsin and Michigan by wafer-thin margins, reaching the White House despite losing the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. Trump’s digital campaign, called ‘Project Alamo’ and based in San Antonio, Texas, involved a team from the now defunct British company Cambridge Analytica, working with a team from the Republican National Committee. Two senior members of the Cambridge Analytica team are working on the Trump 2020 campaign. Cambridge Analytica collapsed after investigations by Channel 4 News, The Observer and the New York Times in 2018. Facebook is facing calls to ban political advertising, following an international backlash over the use of its platform to spread misinformation, disinformation, and suppression during election campaigns.
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The Trump campaign spent £44 million on Facebook ads alone during 2016, posting almost six million different versions of highly targeted messages that were pumped directly into the feeds of target voters across America, helped by a Facebook employee embedded within the Trump campaign. But many of the ads were so called ‘dark posts’, which could vanish from recipients’ feeds once a campaign stopped paying for them. It means no complete public record exists of the ads posted on Facebook during the 2016 campaign or the audience lists used to target voters. The platform offered no ‘Ad Library’ at the time. Without Facebook or the campaign itself revealing the information, it means it’s not possible to ascertain exactly how potential voters in the ‘Deterrence’ group may have been targeted on Facebook.The Trump campaign itself has categorically stated that it did not target African Americans.
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Brad Parscale, the campaign’s 2016 digital director told PBS Frontline: “I would say I’m nearly 100 percent sure we did not run any campaigns that targeted even African Americans.” But Channel 4 News has uncovered evidence that the campaign did target Black voters with negative ads designed to crush Hillary Clinton’s turnout. These included videos featuring Hillary Clinton referring to Black youths as “super predators” which aired on television 402 times in October 2016 and received millions of views on Facebook. In one confidential document seen by Channel 4 News, Cambridge Analytica admitted the Trump campaign did target “AA” (African Americans) with what it called the “Predators video” – spending $55,000 USD in the state of Georgia alone.
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Two Sandwiches · Sep 28, 2020

But they got the Platinum Plan now, so it's all good.

SamFisher · Sep 28, 2020

Might be a coincidence but Brad Parscale testified to Congress they didn't do that

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmoveme...ocuments-show-brad-parscale-lied-to-congress/

Nook · Sep 28, 2020

Are the Republicans going to launch an investigation into channel 4 in Britain to see if the source is a Russian operative targeting Trump?

JayGoogle · Sep 28, 2020

For any of the conservatives wondering "Why do black people always vote democrat!??!"

This is a big reason why.

Instead of trying to capture these votes they are basically saying "Nope, we won't even try to, instead, we'll try to make sure they don't vote at all."

Reeko · Sep 28, 2020

JayGoogle said: ↑

For any of the conservatives wondering "Why do black people always vote democrat!??!"

This is a big reason why.
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it’s amazing how they even have the nerve to wonder why that is

GOP is home to Confederate lovers, Nazis, White Supremacists, etc. Look at how right wingers like Senator talk about black people on here. He was in the Arbery thread along with the other racists calling him a “dindu nuffin.” They have people talking about wanting to start a race war. Why tf should I find a party like that welcoming?

JayGoogle · Sep 28, 2020

Reeko said: ↑

it’s amazing how they even have the nerve to wonder why that is

GOP is home to Confederate lovers, Nazis, White Supremacists, etc. Look at how right wingers like Senator talk about black people on here. He was in the Arbery thread along with the other racists calling him a “dindu nuffin.” They have people talking about wanting to start a race war. Why tf should I find a party like that welcoming?
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"Nah bro, you're just part of the Democratic Plantation and now black people are finally smart enough to walk away from it!"

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