Thread by @peterjukes

Gonna take days to go through the Cambridge Analytica data dump in detail (and it’s already ruining my weekend off) but worth establishing at the get-go that they always insisted they never used their military grade targeting technology in the UK

Not forgetting that always troubling detail that CA US base when they got the Trump contract was in Rupert Murdoch's HQ

Oh. And six months after signing the Trump contract, Cambridge Analytica is planning to work directly with Paul Manafort - you know the one who handed over voter details to a Russian agent and now languishes in federal prison

And such a positive campaign for Make America Number One segment! $1.5m spent on Facebook driving people to their Crooked Hillary website. Ironic given how many Trump aides have been indicted or imprisoned

Facebook always gets it in the neck, but Alphabet (Google) doesn't get a pass. Here's CA celebrating how they gamed the paid for search results

Hmm. This is new from Leave EU. Two years ago @carolecadwalla and I got an invoice for $40k (payable to Bannon's account) for UKIP modelling in 2016. But this seems to suggest a contract worth $1.5m in 2015.

Brief break. I'm up to page 128 - so a long way still to go

This is the first I've heard of BridgeTree and their @LinkedIn operations on page 128 of the Cambridge Analytica data dump, but I have been subject to information operations on Linked In. More here bylinetimes.com/2020/02/17/whi…

Now the Russian connection, as @carolecadwalla and @ProfessorShaw have already noted. Sam Patten, whose close colleague was a presumed Russian agent, was already forging links between Republicans and Ukrainians (presumably pro Putin ones) just as Paul Manafort was doing

Patten was introduced to Nix by someone working for a UK company called Statoil at the time of this email. Know little about this company @WendySiegelman

As others have noted, Nix said CA never worked for any Russian company. @chrisinsilico said they scoped out Putin's popularity for Lukoil. And then there's this

Here's @KellyannePolls late August 2015 on the Trump Campaign planning talking about having "worked with CA before". Anyone have any idea when?

Interesting aside from Brittany about Alexander Nix, Rebekah Mercer and Steve (current indicted for fraud) Bannon

The personal assistant to the Israeli Ambassador keen to meet Rebekah Mercer. Wonder why that would be? @ScottMStedman

When the press start asking questions about the relationship between Bannon's Breitbart and his Cambridge Analytica, it appears the relationship between them was a bit, well, tremulous

Later, it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica has a data sharing exclusive resale deal on Breitbart data and tags @VickerySec

Would love to know what the KTP PAC was circa November 2015, and what on earth "email hygiene" through AIQ means

Bracewell and Giuliani heavily involved with Cambridge Analytica and Keep the Promise PAC. Don't know enough about US election law to tell you if there's anything sketchy here @profcarroll

Also would need a lawyer to look at the contract between Trump and Cambridge Analytica (sure they're onto it)

Somewhere there must be a signed and dated version of this contract between Alexander Nix and Donald Trump

I've got to page 300, and there's Cambridge Analytica's pitch to the Mexican PRI party. So I'll leave it there for tonight.

archive.org/details/ca-doc…

Do let me know if you find anything more before tomorrow

So we know Cambridge Analytica's HQ was in Murdoch's New York Office. Well here's confirmation of their pitch to Murdoch for a Fox News/CA app. Again, how would they use the data?

Meanwhile the ACU (American Conservative Union) sent over 5.5 million data records to Cambridge Analytica in early 2016

Emails also seem to confirm that one of Trump's political appointees, Matthew F Hunter, was employed by CA huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/matthew-…

The number of clients Cambridge Analytica had across the world never ceases to astonish. The Brexit/Trump successes obviously helped. Here they are celebrating bagging CRTV (presumably Cameroon Radio Television)

Yet more confirmation that Cambridge Analytica was working for the NRA -- through an intermediary called the Herald Group. everytown.org/press/a-link-b…

The Cambridge Analytica proposal for the Herald Group and "its client" (the NRA mysteriously concealed here) was for voter registration

Again (whether it worked or not) Cambridge Analytica's unique selling points to the NRA was its psychological profiling, based on those 80m hacked Facebook profiles

Again, I've zero knowledge of US campaign finance law but this email from Matthew F Hunter seems to be suggesting there's a two-way process between donations to a PAC, and hiring Mercer's Cambridge Analytica as a client

Ackermann Queen appears to be an important partner for Cambridge Analytica in the US when targeting consumers over the gun rights and healthcare issues.

And here's more Brexit stuff. Apparently, Cambridge Analytica were looking at 1.5m people for Leave EU. UKIP only had 50,000 names and addresses. So did the remaining 1.45m people come from Facebook, Farage and Breitbart?

Matt Richardson's analysis over using UKIP data. And here's the nub for the ICO report. Sharing personal data is illegal. But sharing modelling based on personal data (i.e. 'the analysed dataset') appears not to be. Big loophole here.

Hmm. So the Ergen TV moguls apparently keen to get involved in Cambridge Analytica projects post the Trump election if they can talk to Steve Bannon and Rebekah Mercer about appointments to the FCC regulatory board.

The full email exchange between currently indicted Steve Bannon and the delightful Mr Arron Banks. Makes Henry James look like an epic

Important. Independent confirmation that Boris Johnson first got close to Steve Bannon with a meeting at the British Consulate in 10 Jan 2017. At the same time Cambridge Analytica were invited to the Foreign Office to discuss elections

Is this the same meeting? Or an earlier one at Trump Tower?