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</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">SCL Group calls itself a "global election management agency"<sup id="cite_ref-scl_5-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-scl-5" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;known for involvement "in military disinformation campaigns to social media branding and voter targeting".<sup id="cite_ref-politico_3-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-politico-3" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;SLC’s involvement in the political world has been primarily in the developing world where it has been used by the military and politicians to study and manipulate public opinion and political will. SCL claims to have been successful to help foment coups</span>.<sup id="cite_ref-politico_3-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-politico-3" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>When SCL Elections formed Cambridge Analytica in 2013 it hired researchers from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Cambridge University</a>, hence the name.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-guardian-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;CA collects data on voters using sources such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics" class="mw-redirect" title="Demographics" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">demographics</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_behavior" class="mw-redirect" title="Consumer behavior" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">consumer behavior</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_and_network_surveillance" title="Computer and network surveillance" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">internet activity</a>, and other public and private sources.&nbsp;</b>According to&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">The Guardian</a></i>, CA is using psychological data derived from millions of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">Facebook</a>&nbsp;users, largely without users' permission or knowledge.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-guardian-6" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Another source of information is the "Cruz Crew"&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_app" title="Mobile app" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;">mobile app</a>&nbsp;that tracks physical movements and contacts and invades personal data more than any other app of presidential candidates.</span><sup id="cite_ref-ap0216_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-ap0216-7" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">[</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-ap0216-7" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">7]</a></sup></font></p><blockquote class="templatequote" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); overflow: hidden; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px 40px;"><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Today in the United States we have somewhere close to four or five thousand data points on every individual. ... So we model the personality of every adult across the United States, some 230 million people."</font></p><div class="templatequotecite" style="line-height: 1.5em; padding-left: 1.6em; margin-top: 0px;"><cite style="font-style: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">— Alexander Nix (Chief Executive, Cambridge Analytica), October 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-20161021sky_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica#cite_note-20161021sky-8" style="text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></cite></div></blockquote><p style=" color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font></span>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ExxonMobil has invested more than £2.36 million in 15 top UK universities over the last five years, figures show.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The University of Cambridge, Imperial College London and Oxford University are the top three recipients of Exxon’s fossil fuel funding. According to data recently released by a Greenpeace investigation, Cambridge received £660,088 from the oil giant, while Imperial got £602,567, and £382,000 was given to Oxford.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://desmogblog.cmail19.com/t/t-l-idyhkkl-yuirlyty-jd/" style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; outline: none; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;">Read more.</a></font>

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