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Massive campaign leak reveals exactly what Donald Trump thinks of Black voters
In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump‘s campaign amassed a vast set of voter data on nearly 200 million Americans.That staggering amount of data, comprised of over 5,000 files adding up to nearly 5 terabytes, has leaked, offering yet another piece of the puzzle in Trump’s surprising victory.An investigation conducted by British news program Channel 4 News found that 3.5 Black Americans were classified by the campaign as “Deterrence”, or voters they wanted to stay home on election day.The “Deterrence” project is being likened to voter suppression by critics, who also want Facebook to reveal the targeting data that was used to show tailored ads intended to influence people not to vote.The data shows Black Americans