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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes A lot of things going on at exactly the same time (Trump Miss Universe in Moscow) - Firtash - Young Britons Foundation - Cambridge Analytica set up - Facebook harvesting - Firtash indictment (sealed, unsealed, sealed then activated), Ukrainian Maidan Revolution

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes It was only a few months after Mark Zuckerberg hosted Moscow Hack the World Event in 2012 at which Russian hackers got prizes for their tool which could hack Facebook accounts and profile friends, connections and personalities in a single app

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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes FT puts it in a more brutal fashion - saying Zuck was scouting for Russian talent

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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes Ulisher Usmanov hands cash to Zuck on scale not frontman Yuri Milner - "Majority shareholders of Mail.ru are MIH – 28.998% and two companies controlled by Alisher Usmanov – Ardoe Finance Limited (11.682%) & New Media and Technology Investment, L. P. (13.644%).

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes "Third day of Zuckerberg's Russian trip also included a visit with the management of Yandex. Citing an anonymous source, RIA-Novosti reported that he visited the company's office, though Yandex spokesman Ochir Mandzhikov declined to comment Tuesday night" themoscowtimes.com/2012/10/01/zuc…

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes What is the thread about? Popping in a chronological line what is known and visible to show that at the very minimum there's a boatload of incredible coincidences

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes So close were Zuckerberg and the Russian - the Russians mistakenly believed Facebook was going to open a huge research centre in Russia

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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes Zuckerberg is scrabbling around looking for cash - in 2011 HE is hacked and he suggests why not crowdfund Facebook instead of getting investors - then along comes his Russian sugar daddies the following year

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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes Where did Stephen 'Kevin' Bannon work again??

"Goldman Sachs is setting up a "special purpose network" to allow rich clients to invest in the firm, whose shares – can be traded on private stock exchanges – have seen frenzied trading in recent months."

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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes Zuckerberg is hacked at almost the same time as Sarkozy is hacked - indicating the Russian FSB hacking teams are warming up their engines

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@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes Incredibly stupid OR complicit - it is hard to tell which is true - perhaps its a bit of both

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes @threadreaderapp 'unroll'

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes In 2005-06 when Bannon was in Hong Kong he was asked to manage IGE (selling gaming cheats - not legal - ultimately chased down by Blizzard Activision) BUT Bannon did bring $60m - and Goldman Sachs puts the cash into Facebook for "special investors" years later #InvestigateMore

@peterjukes @EmmaLBriant @BylineTimes Oh hello what's this - why in God's name would Goldman Sachs invest $60m in this 'on Steve Bannon's word'

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