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Wide side shot of swearing in               2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eitan Hersh, Tufts...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              SHOTLIST:\u003cbr/\u003e              POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington - 16 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide side shot of swearing in \u003cbr/\u003e              2. SOUNDBITE (English) Eitan Hersh, Tufts University Associated Professor: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"From everything I've seen publicly disclosed about Cambridge Analytica, I am skeptical of the idea that its strategies of voter persuasion were unusually effective or contributed meaningfully to the election outcome.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              3. Wide of panel\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica (camera angle changes during soundbite): \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica's schemes since 2015. Before the story broke, Facebook threatened to sue the Guardian and then banned me for whistle-blowing. Responding on behalf of the British government, the UK Secretary of State for Culture called my ban 'outrageous' because it reveals the unrestrained power technology companies can exercise over ordinary citizens when a person's entire online presence can be so quickly and so thoroughly eliminated from existence. There is no check on this power and it raises a serious question for Republicans and Democrats alike: What happens to our democracy when these companies can delete people at will when they speak out.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              5. UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy, (R) Louisiana: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"What issues and candidates?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"So there was a network of PACs (political action committees) that I believe were primarily financed by Robert Mercer that were... And then several senatorial and congressional candidates, I believe.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy: \"Any issues?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"There were issue campaigns. So for example, John Bolton's Pac, was - if you consider that an issue-based campaign, then that was an issue-based campaign.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Sen. John Kennedy:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Did Cambridge Analytica work for Russia or anybody connected with Russia while you were there?\"\u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Uh, work? We did not have a Russian client at the time that I was there.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              7. Wide of lawmakers\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The company learned that there were segments of the population that responded to messages like 'drain the swamp' or images of walls or indeed paranoia about the deep state that weren't necessarily always reflected in mainstream polling or mainstream political discourse, that Steve Benen was interested in using to build his movement.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Wide of lawmakers\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Social media is not really a choice for most people. The internet is not really a choice for most people. It is very difficult to be a functioning member of the workforce or society and refuse to use the internet. I don't know a job that would let you go in and refuse to use Google, for example. I don't know, you know, most hiring requires a LinkedIn profile now. So although we used this narrative of choice because someone's pushing a button, even if they had read the terms and conditions and understood it, they substantively don't really have a choice, because in the modern workforce, you have to use social media and you have to use the internet.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Wide of lawmakers\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's not a question of just informed consent - it's about is it proportionate to the benefit that the consumer is getting? Is it reasonably expected in the future if there's future developments not technology that the consumer did actually consent to that at the time? And more broadly, this narrative of consent is slightly problematic in the sense that when people have to use these platforms, it doesn't matter whether or not they understand, if they have to use it to get a job, they will still use it. And so we are sort of coercing and compelling people to hand over a lot of information which not only now could be dangerous, but you have to imagine in the future, also, what the developments of technology, you know, what developments will see moving forward and what kinds of risks we'll be exposing to people ten years from now when that data about them still exists.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Coons, (D) Delaware: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Was one of his (Steve Bannon's) goals to suppress voting or discourage certain individuals in the United States from voting?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"That was my understanding, yeah. \u003cbr/\u003e              SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Chris Coons, (D) Delaware: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Was voter suppression a service that U.S. clients could request in their contracts with Cambridge Analytica while (Steve) Bannon was vice president?\" \u003cbr/\u003e              UPSOUND (English) Christopher Wylie, Former Director of Research, Cambridge Analytica: \u003cbr/\u003e              \"Yes.\" \u003cbr/\u003e              ++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++\u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE: \u003cbr/\u003e              Former Cambridge Analytica researcher Christopher Wylie testified before members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, as they seek answers into how the London-based firm misused Facebook data during the 2016 U.S. presidential election to create targeted political advertising. \u003cbr/\u003e              Wylie said certain slogans that were used frequently during the Trump campaign were tested by Cambridge Analytica in 2014 - before the Trump campaign was formed. \u003cbr/\u003e              \"The 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