Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, was quoted in the March 29, 2018 Quartz article “From Indonesia to Thailand, Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Influenced Southeast Asian Politics.” The article explores how the SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, aided political parties in several elections across Southeast Asia.
“There’s no doubt that some Thai political parties have commissioned international consultants to work on improving their electability, and this was certainly the case for Thaksin’s Thai Rak Thai Party in 2001,” Professor McCargo said. “Thai political parties want to win elections and some of them brought in whatever expertise they could to advise them.”
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