From lionheart's Indy link: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/steve-bannon-cambridge-analytica-2016-election-black-vote-trump-culture-war-a8355396.html
Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, sought to promote a “culture war” and persuade black people not to vote using Cambridge Analytica’s data collection, it has been claimed.
The Breitbart co-founder “saw cultural warfare as a means to create enduring change in American politics”, a former whistleblower told US senators in an evidence session on Wednesday.
Mr Bannon was Cambridge Analytica’s vice president for two years between 2014 and 2016, when he left to join Mr Trump’s campaign. He left the White House in August last year.
Christopher Wylie, who worked for Cambridge Analytica’s British-based parent company SCL, said he left after seeing documents that referred to plans for a “disengagement” campaign targeting black voters.
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At a hearing before the Senate judiciary committee, Mr Wylie described discussions at the company about suppressing the vote, exploiting racial tensions, and testing campaign slogans in 2014 for use in the 2016 election.
“One of the things that did provoke me to leave was the beginnings of discussions of voter disengagement, I have seen documents reference and I recall conversations that it was intended to focus on African-American voters."
“The company learned that there were segments of the population that responded to messages like ‘drain the swamp’ or images of border walls or indeed paranoia about the ‘deep state’ that weren’t necessarily reflected in mainstream polling or mainstream political discourse that Steve Bannon was interested in to help build his movement.”