Thread by @RealBristolNews

ANYONE wanting to know how the US Presidential election was rigged in 2016 watch this brilliant report. Add in Cambridge Analytica/psychometric targeting, Russia elsewhere amplifying and funding the hate messaging on social media - you have your answer - Brexit was a rehearsal

https://twitter.com/bbcstories/status/897518270349058049

Listen to the Project Alamo report note nuances
AIQ (Canada 100,000s ads)
Cam Analytica "division" at arms length from Electoral Commission
Cummings threw millions at AIQ last few days of campaign
Facebook was the vehicle (7m Brits (the Persuadables)

thedrum.com/news/2017/06/1…

Question I have heard no one ask - who invited teams from Google, Facebook - supposedly impartial internet platforms in to Project Alamo HQ - and why did they agree to do it (was the other side offered the same?)

Middle of May 2012 Mr Tulloch set up a trust/funding structure on behalf of DST Global (Yuri Milner) who got his cash from Ulisher Usmanov who is a Putin-lackey - Facebook picots from Arab Spring Hero of the People to the Angel of Darkness from this point

This also needs answering how is Renaissance Tech - the Mercers making idiotically high amounts of money trading straight through market collapses, dot com busts etc

yourmoneygeek.com/medallion-fund/

Here's the Cambridge Analytica Project Alamo Team - here's a picture of them celebrating beating Hilary Clinton the night of the election

https://twitter.com/RealBristolNews/status/988088682438590470

Matthew Oczkowski led the team in Project Alamo

Stay with 5m video till end - Cambridge Analytica team leader explains kind of - what they did and what they thought - his 'comment on Brexit' suggests insider knowledge - remember Cambridge Analytica 'claim' they never worked on it - which was bullshit

Back story BEFORE Yuri Milner cash (Arab Spring time) Putin came under assault in Russia from protestors (they organised using Facebook and Twitter) (November/December 2011 is the time - event is Puty-Boy stealing the Presidential ellection

theguardian.com/world/2011/dec…

"It's hard to imagine a situation in which Mark Zuckerberg would sell his stake in Facebook." Pavel Durov founder of Telegram (Putin literally bought Facebook influence) theverge.com/2014/1/31/5363…

May 2012 (takes Russian cash from Yuri Milner and DST Technologies) after worries the float was going to blow up. Oct Zuckerberg visits Moscow to meet the then President Medvedev (Putin PM) and by December Navalny's protest pages are booted off Facebook

theverge.com/2014/12/22/743…

This is what the anti-Putin protestors looked like end of 2011 and this why Putin had to act

theatlantic.com/international/…

October 2012 Zuckerberg visits Moscow to "recruit local talent" and "boost his sites numbers"

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

In 2012, Zuckerberg hosted "World Hack Moscow" and gave prizes for figuring out HOW TO MINE FACEBOOK FRIENDS DATA

boingboing.net/2018/06/10/pri…

"Facebook product manager to Simon Cross, walked the developers through the process of using Facebook's API to gather data on a users' friends, showing them how to get "a ton of information" on the entire friend graph of a Facebook user who gave simple permissions to their apps"

Brief video of Zuckerberg IN Moscow at the Hack the World Moscow October 2012

A thread (read all tweets) showing Hack the World October 2012 'experts in mining Facebook data and winners of Facebook hackathon Moscow-based Boostmate - who simply vanish soon after

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1289515…

Nashi (Putin militant youth wing of United Russia) worked out they could pay hackers to work for Putin on this (here is the birth of the idea which was to become the Internet Research Agency's troll farms - the Trolls of Olgino)

theguardian.com/world/2012/feb…

Now the bit 'just before Putin being pissed off' - Cambridge University research team 'discovers' how easy it is to hack Facebook friends and family in a research exercise

web.archive.org/web/2013012007…

April 22 - 2011 Cambridge University's Kominiski reports on how an experiment allowed the University team to hack Facebook's friends and family data - they can define targets by Personality Type

By 2012 Cambridge University are advertising how they can revolutionise marketing using their Facebook personality hacking tool - a paid for university business

web.archive.org/web/2012021822…

Cambridge slicken the service up & Kominiski is the contact selling it (2012) again

Academics at Uni Camb distributed data from the personality quiz app myPersonality to hundreds of researchers via a website with insufficient security, left vulnerable to access for 4 years. Gaining access illicitly was easy.
newscientist.com/article/216871…

newscientist.com/article/216871…

Also in New Scientist piece
"Cambridge Analytica had approached the myPersonality app team in 2013 to get access to the data, but was turned down because of its political ambitions, according to Stillwell (one of the team behind all of above)

Michal Kosinski, David Stillwell, and Thore Graepel publish a science paper on 'How they did it with Facebook access' April 2013

pnas.org/content/110/15…

Guess who poured £6m into "research" at Cambridge Uni in 2010 (Dmytro Firtash -Putin-made energy oligarch under arrest in Vienna awaiting extradition hearings for bribery of Indian regional govts/attempt to extort Boeing over titanium) #WhatACoincidence

varsity.co.uk/news/12328

"It was at Cambridge, home of Psychometrics Centre Kogan became crucial link between SCL/Facebook’s vast troves of personal data" "Kogan was introduced to SCL Elections in January 2014 by a Cambridge psychology PhD student, according to emails"

theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…

Kogan had something SCL wanted: a Facebook app that worked under Facebook's pre-2014 terms of service, allowing app developers to harvest data. “New applications are not able to access friend networks and no other psychometric profiling applications exist under old Facebook terms

End of May 2014, Kogan established Global Science Research Ltd (GSR) signed the contract with SCL Elections. Kogan’s co-director of GSR, and a witness to the contract’s execution, was Joseph Chancellor, a post-doctoral student in Kogan’s lab who is currently employed by Facebook.

How academic at centre of Facebook scandal tried – and failed – to spin personal data into gold

theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…

Chris Wylie testimony to Congress (re Dr Kogan and Cambridge University psychometric research and Moscow)

Project Ripon and the need for multi-million dollar funding to harvest the stolen data and create the beast that could be used to swing elections

"SCL had extensive experience working in counter-extremism and military projects for the British and American governments. It should have known better"

Rebekah Mercer tasked Steve Bannon with setting up Cambridge Analytica in London fall 2013. Trump's Miss Universe was hosted only weeks later + Days of Ukraine (3 day festival in London) mid Oct 2013 occurred hosted by Mayor Boris Johnson paid for by Dmytro Firtash

Chris Wylie testimony judiciary.senate.gov/download/05-16…

Days of Ukraine Festival to be held in London for 1st time October 2013 (backed by Boris Johnson and President of Ukraine - who flees to Russian Feb 22 2014 after the Maidan Revolution in Ukraine)

day.kyiv.ua/en/article/day…

Trump at the Miss Universe event Nov 2013 "I do have a relationship with Vladimir Putin" to camera

theguardian.com/us-news/2017/s…

Before the actual Brexit referendum in 2016 there was an attempt to introduce it in 2013 BY A TORY closely associated with Alexander Temerko and his Russian cash

Temerko gained UK citizenship in 2011 - has donated more than £1m to the Conservative Party + James Wharton ran Boris Johnson's campaign for leader (with Temerko funding)

reuters.com/article/uk-bri…

The Boris.org website which ran his leadership campaign was registered to Paul Staines (Guido Fawkes in 2012) - it all starts to look clearer doesn't it

buzzfeed.com/alexspence/a-b…

Paul Staines and Harry Cole are IN MOSCOW selling adverts to the Russian government in 2012 (here they are on right) for his MySpace political ads campaign

Sorry they flew in late 2011 to meet the Kremlin representatives (just at the same time Facebook is being used by protestors to tweak Putin's arse)

Jag Singh - Singh's back again Sept 2012 - giving fluent speeches in Russian (Richard Royal Conservative Friends of Russia far left in pic) one of the WESS Digital crew in pic as well

jag.my/2012/interview…

We have a Jag Singh and Harry Cole date chaps and chapesses - 28th November 2011 just as the Putin troubles because of Facebook are hitting home with the Kremlin - Guido and friends are selling the Kremlin adverts to the MySpace Guido website

2011 Jag in Moscow, 2012 Jag in Moscow, 2013 Jag and friends set up WESS Digital and Matthew Elliott has 'decided' getting the UK out of the EU is his next big project by then (also have the receipts for that) - sounds really odd 'like orders'

And what do you know Steve Hilton (David Cameron's Nudge Unit guru) worked in the campaign to re-elect President Medvedev

Here Paul Staines (Guido) openly admits to cavorting around with Sergiy Nalobin spymaster in chief in the UK London embassy until he was thrown out 'for spying'

spectator.co.uk/article/a-very…

"Sergei Cristo, a Russian-born Tory activist/fundraiser, said Nalobin approached in Dec 2010, seeking introductions to top Tory party figures. According to Cristo, Nalobin offered to make donations to Tory party funds via UK-reg, Russian-owned companies"

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

If I can find this shit in my spare time on Open Source sites UK security services ARE
a) Totally fu*king useless
b) Stupid and looking the other way
c) Paid by some 'external power' not to look too closely