Tim Lim, a former Democratic digital adviser, said: “The 2020 campaigns are going to be targeting not just you but your friends. It is not just about who you are, it is who you are connected to.
FT reports, Politicians no longer just want your donation or your vote: they want your contacts book too. With just a year to go until the next US presidential election, both Democrats and Republicans are developing technology that allows them to nudge potential voters via their supporters’ personal networks, thereby potentially bypassing large social media platforms.
So-called “relational organizing” apps, which were first used by the Trump campaign in 2016, are now being used by campaigns on both sides to access the phone contacts of consenting supporters and cross-reference them against voter databases.
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