{"id":159981,"date":"2018-04-14T22:33:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T02:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=159981"},"modified":"2018-04-14T22:33:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T02:33:36","slug":"prrd-rejects-speculations-on-cambridge-analyticas-hand-in-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/14\/prrd-rejects-speculations-on-cambridge-analyticas-hand-in-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"PRRD rejects speculations on Cambridge Analytica\u2019s hand in campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, in his arrival speech at the Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City on April 13, 2018, announces that his visit to China has yielded an estimated investment value of around $9.5-billion which could generate some 10,000 jobs for Filipinos. JOEY DALUMPINES\/PRESIDENTIAL PHOTO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0— President Rodrigo R. Duterte said he did not know or trust anyone working for Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy currently at the center of a Facebook data mining scandal which claimed to have helped him win the 2016 presidential race.<\/p>\n

The parent firm of Cambridge Analytica, Strategic Communications Laboratories (SCL), boasted on its website that it helped Duterte get elected by branding him as a tough, decisive \u201cman of action\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala man akong alam. Hindi ko man kilala \u2018yan. Honestly, hindi ako bilib diyan sa survey-survey<\/em>\u00a0(I don\u2019t know anything. I don\u2019t know them, Honestly, I don\u2019t believe in surveys of any kind),\u201d Duterte said when he arrived in Davao City on Friday from his visit to China and Hong Kong.<\/p>\n

\u201cWala akong Cambridge-Cambridge, Oxford, basta \u2018yung akin, kampanya, simple lang<\/em>\u00a0(I\u2019m not involved in any Cambridge-Cambridge, Oxford, for me, it was just a simple campaign),\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Duterte said that he would not even think of paying the firm to help him with his campaign, quipping that they could be responsible for his loss.<\/p>\n

\u201cBakit ako magbayad sa mga ugok na taga-Cambridge ang magtrabaho para sa kampanya ko? Mas lalo akong matalo niyan<\/em>\u00a0(Why would I pay someone from Cambridge to work on my campaign? I might end up losing),\u201d Duterte said.<\/p>\n

\u201cDili ko musalig<\/em>\u00a0(I will not trust) Cambridge-Cambridge,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Malaca\u00f1ang earlier said that Duterte\u2019s campaign team did not have to buy its way into making the Chief Executive win in the 2016 elections because he won “fair and square\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe President won the election fair and square with an overwhelming mandate of over 16 million votes and a margin of over six million,\u201d Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Roque pointed out that there was no need for Duterte\u2019s campaign team to purchase information from Cambridge Analytica, since support for the President came from beyond the online community.<\/p>\n

\u201cSupport for the former Davao city mayor was from all sectors and not just from Facebook or online; thus, the Duterte campaign did not have to purchase information,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has launched an investigation into the data breach involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, where the personal information of more than a million Filipino users may have been shared without their consent.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Facebook, the NPC required the popular social networking site to submit documents relevant to the case to establish the scope and impact of the incident on Filipino subjects.<\/p>\n

It launched its formal investigation on Thursday to seek more concrete actions from Facebook.<\/p>\n

The letter was signed by NPC Commissioner Raymund Liboro and Deputy Commissioners Ivy Patdu and Leandro Aguirre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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