@anneapplebaum Brilliant work @anneapplebaum. 🙏🏽CNN and others have asked for this Cambridge Analytica timeline I put together. There may be morsels in it of incremental value to you and your already deep knowledge of the facts and connections. Reputable sources only:
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@anneapplebaum E.g. June 2013: ROBERT MURTFELD becomes a legal assistant at JULIAN ASSANGE’s law firm, Doughty Street Chambers, a position he holds until Aug 2015 when he leaves to work at Cambridge Analytica.
@anneapplebaum ▪️[June 2014:] Cambridge Analytica begins testing slogans like “drain the swamp” and “deep state.” (CNN 2) SIDE NOTE: Cambridge Analytica’s MARK TURNBULL bragged that the firm also created the “crooked Hillary” moniker. (Channel 4)
@anneapplebaum ▪️July 2014: CA CEO ALEXANDER NIX asks for a detailed presentation of Cambridge Analyticas’s work to share with VAGIT ALEKPEROV, the CEO of Russia’s huge oil company, Lukoil.
@anneapplebaum ALEKPEROV “is a former Soviet oil minister who said the strategic aims of Lukoil are aligned with those of Russia. “I have only one task connected with politics, to help the country and the company. I’m not close to Mr PUTIN, but I treat him with great respect,” he told NYT”
@anneapplebaum Last one but there is SO much more: ▪️2014-2015: SCL Group and Cambridge Analytica employees, “who often overlap, had contact...with executives from Lukoil.”
“Lukoil was interested in how data was used to target American voters.” (NYT)
“Lukoil was interested in how data was used to target American voters.” (NYT)
