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‼️The Great Hack Where Are They Now Thread‼️

I watched the @thegreathackdoc on @netflix last night, and of course had to hit Google to find out where all the bad guys were at today. Here's what I found:

(These are docs from @chrisinsilico testimony)

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico Alexander Nix: Article from July 24th

He cancelled a speech he was to give at Cannes in June, because they were screening The Great Hack. This was to be his first public speech since the scandal erupted last year. Sheryl Sandberg was attending as well🙄

bing.com/amp/s/heavy.co…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico After the @Channel4News undercover video, Nix was suspended, CA was shut down, and ultimately filed for bankruptcy.

Nix insisted that CA had never worked on an election in the UK, but Brittany Kaiser said in the doc that this wasn’t true. According to her, they were never

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News officially contracted because that would look bad, but they indeed worked on the Leave.Eu campaign off the books. Some proof in the doc, hopefully more to come via British Parliament.
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News Whenever the subject came up in interviews with Nix, he says "We don't talk about that"

FTC sues Cambridge Analytica and restricts former CEO’s business activity in the US. Settled July 24th, 2019

theverge.com/2019/7/24/2070…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News The FTC reached a settlement with Nix along with Aleksandr Kogan. At the same time the FTC said that CA had harvested FB info deceptively using a personality test app and falsely told users that it wouldn’t download any identifiable information.

Nix must destroy any personal

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News info he has, under his settlement, and will be “restricted” from making false or deceptive statements about personal information in the future.

This was a slap on the wrist, but hey, what did you expect from the Trump admin? Nix helped Trump win
ftc.gov/system/files/d…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News Brittany Kaiser - Company biz dev director, maybe had a coming to Jesus moment during the filming of the doc. She was 30 at the time Nix said to her he wanted to get her drunk and find out all she knew about how the Obama campaign won using data.

washingtonpost.com/technology/201…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News She now heads up the /#OwnYourData campaign, but she seems, according to her LinkedIn profile to still be doing the same thing work wise, which makes me very curious.

She calls herself a whistleblower, but most disagree including Christopher Wiley. If she was, why did she wait

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News until the scandal exploded?

theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News “I was then, like, ‘Wow, I was part of something that I shouldn't have been part of. I never thought that the campaign is actually going to win. Oh my God.’ He actually won through this, you know, racist, sexist rhetoric that has divided a country that was actually doing quite

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News well,” Kaiser said.

Soon after, she found herself in a conflict with her bosses over her role in the company. A promotion she sought to Cambridge Analytica’s executive ranks didn’t come through.

“That's when the disillusionment really sunk in. And I realized these people could

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News be doing a lot more than I know about, because they're cutting the corners that I see, and I'm not an executive of the company. So what else is going on?”

See what I mean?

washingtonpost.com/technology/201…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News /Leave.Eu

Kaiser said she felt she had lied by supporting CA’s company line that it had done “no paid or unpaid work” for /Leave.EU. “In my opinion, I was lying,” she said. “In my opinion I felt like we should say, ‘this is exactly what we did’.”
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News Julian Assange scandal broken by @carolecadwalla at a very inopportune time. Kaiser was in the middle of meeting with Mueller.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/j…

@thegreathackdoc @netflix @chrisinsilico @Channel4News @carolecadwalla Kaiser wants to be remembered more for what happened after Cambridge Analytica imploded

Too bad. Anyone foolish enough to join /#OwnYourData gets whatever comes their way.

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