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Stefan Simanowitz

17 Oct, 9 tweets, 9 min read

#CambridgeAnalyica’s Brittany Kaiser has disclosed 800 pages of previously unreleased documents

They show:

1) CA started working for Trump in Sept, 2015

2) AIQ was operating as single legal entity with CA - something that had
been denied

3) “LeaveEU project approved” 3/11/15

The documents appear to reveal illegal coordination btw Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign & pro-Trump super PAC

They also appear to reveal that Nix lied to Parliament & to Congress

The companies in charge of our health data in UK & US, #Palantir & #FacultyAI, are linked to CA!

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1183657994514554880?s=21

Designed by #CambridgeAnalytica
& used by #Trump in his 2016 campaign & in LeaveUK’s Brexit campaign, this was a social warfare tool - designed to open cracks in societies & hollow out democracies - turned against our own populations.
#Palantir #FacultyAI

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1183657994514554880?s=21

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1183657994514554880

The collapse of #CambridgeAnalytica brought few consequences for their employees

Nix & others set up their own lucrative data consultancies/lobby firms or joined others

Behind the scenes, the powerful don’t distance themselves from CA

They just want to learn their secrets.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1313797319528263680?s=21

Cambridge Analytica is Britain’s the least trusted brand. The NHS is the most trusted

And yet, #Palantir & #FacultyAI - companies with links to #CambridgeAnalytica - run the NHSX digital platform & have access all our health data, incldg genetic material.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1313797319528263680?s=21

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1313797319528263680

@chrisinsilico

According to @chrisinsilico, senior Palantir employees worked with #CambridgeAnalytica on harvesting Facebook data.

Here Palantir’s founder, right-wing billionaire Peter Thiel, gives an insight into his approach.

“You ask for forgiveness not permission.”

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1312797236988981255?s=21

It seems clear that Cummings, Bannon & Trump etc. never had any intention of “asking permission”

They’re rolling out a well-planned, well-resourced, Intelligence-backed strategy which puts science & technology - & crucially genomics - at society’s heart.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1312797236988981255?s=21

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1312797236988981255

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1310605419694493697?s=21

Genome research has HUGE potential social & cost benefits, not just in medicine

In the right hands & with the appropriate checks & balances it is crucial

But when it is rolled out by govts in conjunction with companies like #Palantir, scrutiny is needed.

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1310605419694493697?s=21

https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1310605419694493697

@peterjukes

Excellent summary by @peterjukes

New #CambridgeAnalytica documents prove involvement with Leave EU & official Vote Leave campaigns & further evidence of connection btw Bannon, Farage & Banks

Our focus must be on what they are doing NOW! #PalantirPlan

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