Robert Mercer, conservative media mogul and owner of Breitbart news positioned Steve Bannon as Trump’s presidential campaign manager. Cambridge Analytica, also owned by Mercer used big data to target american voters who were vulnerable to particular, individualized media messaging. The documentary Trumping Democracy
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