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Cambridge Analytica LLC was an anonymous shell company abandoned in bankruptcy court. FTC can’t even serve a subpoena.

It’s only because of reporters and whistleblowers that we all know who actually owns it.
This is one of my favorite passages from @chrisinsilico’s #Mindf_ck
Tough break for the plutes folks
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David Carroll 🦅
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Zuck can’t admit that his employees are challenging the business model to its core, even going as far as mentioning Custom Audiences.
Here’s the section on Custom Audiences. Only marketers and industry observers realize this is even possible. Also impossible to opt-out of being targeted with Custom Audiences. “Hiding” these ads deep in the settings is the ultimate dark pattern, a futile effort, by design.
Brittany Kaiser describes in her book #Targeted how Facebook employees embedded with the Trump campaign helped maximize use of the Custom Audiences feature to microtarget (and conceal malicious messaging).
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David Carroll 🦅
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Little Nitpick on the Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Memoirs: Both Wylie and Kaiser make the same mistake and use “testify” in their books when they describe their appearances to parliaments. But you “give evidence” because you’re not actually under oath. #Targeted #Mindf_ck
Parliaments just assumed witnesses would never dare. That is until Alexander Nix came along and misled Parliament, the ICO… I’d assume US authorities also…although that’s not public unlike UK enquiry. Congressional testimony involves an oath but not all hearings are under oath.
Wylie testified before Congress. Kaiser was subpoenaed by Mueller and like Wylie, Kaiser cooperated with numerous investigations. They describe this cooperation with various investigations in their books. Wylie delivered binders to Congress. Kaiser delivered hard drive to FBI.
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According to Brittany Kaiser’s evidence submitted to UK Parliament committee, Cambridge Analytica and Breitbart had an exclusive data sharing agreement so cookies could be matched to illict voter profiles.

CA broke UK law in US elections but Zuckerberg never acknowledged that.
ALWAYS BRING RECEIPTS:

Breitbart-CA Data Sharing
1. parliament.uk/business/commi…

ICO says CA broke UK law in US elections
2. ico.org.uk/action-weve-ta…
Given @slpng_giants campaign that helps thousands of advertisers block the site for its abhorrence, difficult to imagine it’s generating adequate ad revenue to be financially sustainable, almost certainly being subsidized by Mercer money. Facebook News traffic helps the Mercers.
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on this day five years ago I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. I have lived here now longer than anywhere else since I left for college at 18, and now @CambMA really feels like my home. I love this city so much.
@CambMA so, in tribute, I am going to spend today tweeting out some of my favorite things about & places in #Cambridge. this feels especially important to do as so much has changed since I moved here in 2014.
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💣🔥💥🍿🐾#SamPatten is a starter on this menu. A thread on #Trump #Putin #Collusion: from pop-singers in Taj Mahal to weapons in Syria, plus what Satan, black cats, soccer, Patriarchs & judo wrestling have in common. Tarantino, it is not. Oh, plus #CambridgeAnalytica. 👇
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Data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica brought in about $25 million in 2016, but business sharply declined in 2017, to approx $5 million, as questions into tactics mounted - according to new bankruptcy-court records filed on Thursday wsj.com/articles/cambr…
The company is down to about $1,500 in cash. Before it stopped operating, it was being kept afloat with a $9 million loan from Emerdata Ltd, which owns 89.5% of Cambridge Analytica LLC and is now paying the company’s U.S. bankruptcy lawyer.
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Cambridge Analytica’s net operating loss for 2017 was nearly $14 million. So far this year, Cambridge Analytica posted another $7 million in losses, court papers say.
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💥Cambridge Analytica Just Filed For US Bankruptcy - and the filings note that Emerdata is footing the legal bills for the CA and SCL bankruptcies buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/cambri… via @RMac18
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Here's the Cambridge Analytica bankruptcy filing, the section 'All other names debtor used in the last 8 years' includes a company called "Anaxi Solutions Inc."
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The results of the independent internal investigation are out.

#CambridgeAnalytica #MRDA
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The report is released by #CambridgeAnalytica as they commence insolvency proceedings.

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> Earlier today, SCL Elections Ltd., as well as certain of its and Cambridge Analytica LLC’s U.K. affiliates (collectively, the “Company” or “Cambridge Analytica”) filed applications to commence insolvency proceedings in the U.K.

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