Cambridge Analytica may be gone, but its spirit will live on in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Former senior executives from the bankrupt will be working on Trump’s 2020 campaign under the name of a new company.
But don’t tell anyone, because it’s apparently supposed to be a secret.
Brad Parscale, the head of President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, is reportedly in talks with the company, AP News sources have told the outlet.
The new company is called Data Propria. At least four former Cambridge Analytica executives are connected to it. Matt Oczkowski, who heads the new company, was also Cambridge Analytica’s former head of product, while its chief data scientist, David Wilkonson, is also among those reportedly connected to Data Propria.
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it would make sense for President Trump’s team to try to distance itself from the company’s former executives.
But for Parscale, that will be very difficult, as he is a co-owner of Cloud Commerce, the parent company of Data Propria.
Let’s remind you that Cambridge Analytica claims it did nothing wrong. Congress, of course, disagrees, but for some reason it seems to be blaming it all on Facebook.
Furthermore, Parscale and Oczkowski deny that Data Propria is involved in the 2020 campaign
Parscale, however, claims that he is not thinking that far ahead. Although strangely, Cambridge Analytica began collecting data for the 2016 Hamburg campaign in 2014. Oczkowski, for his part, denies involvement in the 2020 campaign, according to AP News, but says the company will participate in the 2018 elections.
However, AP News sources claim that there are already many conversations that show things somewhat differently. According to the publication:
In one such conversation, which took place in a public place and was overheard by two AP reporters, Oczkowski said he and Trump's 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale, were "doing the president's work for 2020."
All of the above makes it more than obvious that Trump's 2020 campaign is off to a great start: he's surrounding himself with the same people as before (minus Stephen Bannon, who's busy with the president's next plan, world domination).
We should be ready for Cambridge Analytica 2.0 as Trump's 2020 election machine is already primed for action.
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