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Cambridge Analytica deceived Facebook users, says FTC - Firm engaged in deceptive practices about data for voter profiling and targeting

The impact of the agency order is not immediately clear as the consulting firm is no longer in business
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/d…
Meanwhile Mark Trumbull ex executive at Cambridge Analytica behind some of their shadiest political business activity is now running Auspex Int’l and just published an article on regulation of social media in Africa🤦🏼‍♀️ theafricareport.com/20741/africa-f…
it's too late and toothless
As I wrote last year, Cambridge Analytica may be dead - but the network thrives in various iterations - Emerdata, Auspex International, Data Propria and others

And it turns out CA is not dead either - Cambridge Analytica Holdings, SCL Insight are active

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
(I didn't write the headline :)
This chart is from last summer and now outdated, but shows some of the Cambridge Analytica/SCL offshoot companies and other companies doing similar work
medium.com/@wsiegelman/so…
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In March, Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman pitched an LNG deal to Andrew Favorov the #2 at Ukraine’s state-run gas co Naftogaz - and removing his boss.

Now Favorov is talking to the media and adds new details about these early meetings
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Favorov met w/Parnas & Fruman in April, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev attended one mtg

Parnas/Fruman introduced Favorov to a rep from Harry Sargeant III's company and to Jeff Miller, ex-adviser to Rick Perry & Tommy Hicks Jr, RNC co-chair and Don Jr pal
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Several people involved w/Giuliani now were close to him during his 2007 presidential bid - Rick Perry endorsed him, and Roy Bailey introduced him to Rep Pete Sessions (received Parnas/Fruman $ & pushed to oust Yovanovitch) & Tom Hicks (Hicks Jr's dad)
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A Russian investigation firm A1 (part of Mikhail Fridman's Alfa Group) hired a mobile billboard to offer Londoners a bounty for information on Georgy Bedzhamov, a fugitive wanted in Moscow for his connection to a £2.6 billion fraud at Vneshkombank
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Larisa Markus, the bank’s CEO and Bedzhamov’s sister is serving an 8.5 year sentence in Russia & admitted using shell companies to siphon $ from the bank. Victims include family members of Kremlin officials, state corporations & the Russian Orthodox Church
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I covered Markus & Bedzhamov in this story on real estate deal involving Felix Sater, who worked with an accountant who managed Larisa Markus's US business affairs

When Bedzhamov was arrested in Monaco, allegedly Dmitry Rybolovlev helped get him released
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Wendy Siegelman
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Investigation of the smartphone tracking industry - largely unregulated companies are logging movements of millions of people w/mobile phones. @nytimes obtained file of 50billion location pings from phones of 12million+ people, by @stuartathompson @cwarzel
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@NateSilver538 REMINDER [THREAD]: The controversy over foreign influence into the 2016 election involved a debate over whether or not targeted facebook advertising courtesy of Cambridge Analytica & Facebook was more than just an attempt at influencing the election. Was it actually effective? 1/
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Tweet storm on how India has built a worse manipulation engine for elections than Cambridge Analytica
When #Facebook allowed third parties to colonise your relationship with them, they corrupted the purpose for which you and Facebook came together medium.com/@anupamsaraph/…
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
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