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Was the now infamous Cambridge Analytica in talks with Cong for 2019 polls?

According to The Verge, the companies are widely credited with helping Trump more effectively target voters on Facebook than his rival Hillary Clinton

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Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), the firm that drove American president Donald trump’s campaign for his smashing victory into the White House, has been banned from Facebook for violating its policies and commitments.

A little known fact about Cambridge Analytica, the political data analytics arm of Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL), is that the same company was reportedly in talks with Indian National Congress to manage their social media campaign for the 2019 legislative elections to tap in the whopping 240-million Facebook user base in India. 

According to The Verge, the companies are

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