Thread by @karolcummins

‼️Farage 👉🏼Bannon👉🏼Breitbart 👉🏼Mercer👉🏼Cambridge Analytica 👉🏼FaceBook👉🏼NRA

In 2014, Breitbart News, of which Bannon was executive chair, opened an office in London. A top editor, Raheem Kassam, later went on to work as Farage’s chief of staff.

theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

Bannon is the driving force behind Trump’s “America First” nationalist policies – hosted Farage in the US while he was leading Ukip and introduced him to key US conservatives.

theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

Breitbart strongly supported the leave campaign during the EU referendum in the UK and Bannon is seen as the main conduit between Trump and Farage.
theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

The publication of the Paradise Papers revealed that Breitbart itself is largely funded by up to $60 million that, thanks to the Mercers’ use of an offshore investment vehicle in Bermuda, is not taxed in the U.S.
vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/s…

Mercer had held a majority stake in Breitbart—created a network of offshore accounts in Bermuda to fund the Mercer Family Foundation, which dumps money into conservative causes.

vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/s…

From 2013 to 2015, the Mercer foundation gave $4.7m to Bannon’s Government Accountability Institute—more than half its total funding in that time

vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/s…

Mercer’s foundation also gave millions more to other groups that funded Bannon. It paid $3.8m to the nonprofit arm of Citizens United, best known for the deregulation of political spending it won in a 2010 Supreme Court ruling
vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/s…

The Mercer foundation gave $1.2m to the Young America’s Foundation, another conservative nonprofit, which paid Bannon more than $577,000 between 2010 and 2012 for filmmaking services, according to filings.
vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/s…

Mercer & Bannon’s Cambridge Analytica worked with a DC consulting company, The Herald Group, to promote the NRA's "Trigger the Vote," aimed at registering voters and getting them to the polls.

Mercer is a lifetime NRA member.

newsweek.com/nra-cambridge-…

Cambridge Analytica used personal information from 50 million Facebook users to target pro-Trump and anti-Clinton ads during the presidential race. It is believed the NRA's campaign also used information from those Facebook profiles.
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/…

The NRA's “Trigger the Vote” campaign used information from those Facebook profiles via Cambridge Analytica.
newsweek.com/nra-cambridge-…

Facebook now says the data firm Cambridge Analytica gained unauthorized access to up to 87 million users' data, mainly in the United States.
wired.com/story/facebook…

How the Russian-linked Cambridge Analytica scammed 87 million US Facebook users for their data & then weaponized Facebook user data to help elect Trump via personalized (micro-targeted) anti-Clinton and pro-Trump propaganda.
zdnet.com/google-amp/art…

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📌The above is a very limited highlight of the relationships between Farage 👉🏼Brexit👉🏼Bannon👉🏼Breitbart 👉🏼Mercer👉🏼Cambridge Analytica 👉🏼FaceBook👉🏼NRA

It is far more complex and involves a huge cast of characters.

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