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They’re Back! Ex-Cambridge Analytica employees launch Auspex International to focus on social and political campaigns in the Middle East & Africa - my latest on company reported by @aliya__ram in @FinancialTimes w/my new reporting on directors & ownership
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my latest👆🏼@carolecadwalla @annmarlowe @profcarroll @chrisinsilico @brexit_sham @peterjukes @J_amesp @EmmaLBriant @ProfessorShaw @dcpoll @WriteSmitty @traciemac_Bmore @Delavegalaw @RVAwonk @lrozen @leahmcelrath @funder @grantstern @ZarinaZabrisky @JoshTBoswell @KevinGHall
An ironic part of Auspex Intl press release is Al-Khatib saying Mark Turnbull--who worked at Cambridge Analytica & Bell Pottinger which both closed in scandal & who was caught in channel4 sting video discussing dirty tricks--was hired for his integrity🙄
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Another interesting part of the Auspex Int'l press release is that collapse of Cambridge Analytica "presented an opportunity to build an ethically based, data-driven communications company" - curious to see the ethical approach the ex-employees implement🧐
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Two stories today about UAE selling off two huge NYC real estate investments

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And a majority stake in 330 Madison Ave owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is heading to the sales market at pricing expected to reach nearly $1 billion
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I don't know that these two sales have any significance, but the size of the deals seems notable and worth keeping an eye on.
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Manafort intended for polling data to go to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin & Rinat Akhmetov - Manafort wrote in an August '16 email he expected $2.4 million payment in Nov 2016 for work done in Ukraine - from backers including Lyovochkin & Akhmetov
cnn.com/2019/01/09/pol…
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Both Paul Manafort & Rick Gates gave data to Konstantin Kilimnik in the spring 2016 - some data was developed by a private polling firm working for the campaign - Manafort asked Gates to tell Kilimnik to pass the data to Oleg Deripaska, HT @painter_nancy nytimes.com/2019/01/08/us/…
Manafort and Gates passed polling data to Kilimnik to be sent to Putin ally Oleg Deripaska

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One of the services provided by Cambridge Analytica was polling
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THREAD (update):

Are BRAD PARSCALE and DATA PROPRIA trying to "rig" the 2018 midtems by using absentee ballots for SICK and DYING voters across the country? /1
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Clarus Healthcare is a trademark of a company called "Clarus Health Services, LLC," which was incorporated on 7/14/16.

The "Clarus Healthcare" trademark was filed on 8/23/16. /3
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Thread: A Return to China and India

1. Some months ago, we examined the Spider Dragon’s focus on India’s Seven Sisters as part of China’s ongoing plan for world economic domination:
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@carolecadwalla The Playtika gambling app, a Cambridge Analytica creditor, was also given extended access to FB Friend data.
@carolecadwalla @WendySiegelman @LouiseMensch @TrueFactsStated @maddow The Philanthropy Roundtable Culture of Freedom Initiative is another Cambridge Analytica creditor: “Through COFI, 430 churches & nonprofits in 3 test cities have access to breakthrough data & micro-targeting technology”
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THREAD: Cambridge Analytica appears to have used a Canadian company, AggregateIQ #AIQ, to cheat UK election laws to steal the #Brexit vote‼️ 1/

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
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Right before the election, Vote Leave donated a total of £675,315 in 4 donations over 8 days to BeLeave, a political org set up by two 21-something yo’s who worked for Vote Leave.🤨 2/
Quick digression on UK campaign finance law before adding to the story.🤓

The SPENDING limit for Vote Leave (official campaign group) was £7m. Separate campaigns (such as BeLeave) could spend up to £700,000 each, but CANNOT coordinate or “work together”.🤨 3/
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