Topic: Do So Campaign

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Imminent Threat
Episode 1207 1:36:39 - 1:40:33

1207: Imminent Threat

Trinidad Election Experiments, Do So Campaign

Cambridge Analytica reportedly used Trinidad as a "petri dish" to test voter suppression tactics before applying them in Western democracies. The "Do So" campaign targeted Afro-Trinidadian youth, making it "cool" not to vote in order to influence the election outcome in favor of their clients. This micro-targeting exploited existing ethnic tensions between the Indian and Black populations in the country.