Thread by @RealBristolNews

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware I forgot the bleeding obvious - we have a Russian friendly money managing expert who handles the oligarchs cash walking among us - Alastair Tulloch - he handled Yuri Milner cash and popped it into Facebook

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware One of the co-founders of Boostmate - in his own words - look at his work experience linkedin.com/in/alexpolynov/

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware December 2014 Cambridge Uni - a top professor screams out loud that Dr Spectre is harvesting Facebook data and it could be used for evil as well as good - this professors also lectures 'in St Petersburg' yards away from the Internet Research Agency

wired.com/story/the-man-…

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware VIP (April 9 - 2013)
Researchers - Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel - prove the latency and danger of targeted personality profiling on Facebook (Alexander Chancellor/Dr Spectre specifically comes to talk to them about it)

pnas.org/content/110/15…

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware So Boostmate (hacking friends on Facebook and mining their personal data) wins a prize October 2013 in "Facebook's Hack the World' in Moscow event (5 months after the 'original discovery'
nature.com/articles/d4158…

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware So what was going on in London at the Russian embassy during these critical couple of years?

https://twitter.com/RealBristolNews/status/1462227533269766148

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware They began a campaign to actively infiltrate the EU's Council of Europe through its United Russia (Putin) party connections + to infiltrate the Conservative Party

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware "Cristo reveals an even more extraordinary detail – a detail he first told to a journalist in 2013: “The most pressing question Sergiy Nalobin asked was if there really was a personal rivalry between David Cameron and Boris Johnson.” (brilliant article)

theguardian.com/politics/2017/…

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware "BuzzFeed said a website campaigning for Boris Johnson is registered to Paul Staines – Guido Fawkes. Boris2020.org, registered in 2012 begun emailing people who registered email address to the site in the wake of Johnson’s leadership candidacy newstatesman.com/science-tech/2…

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware We established Putin wanted to 'own' Facebook in 2012 (DST Global in May) - wanted revenge for FBook's role in Russia's mini-Arab spring style revolt. Staines/Harry Cole in Russia in 2012 selling adverts to MySpace Staines' site - Jag Singh sets up Boris2020 - what a coincidence

@threadreaderapp @stonesister7 @NarcAware Here are Staines' adverts placed by the Russian embassy March 7 2012 (Putin cash saves Facebook in May 2012)