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1/ A thread revisiting old articles on Flynn's links to SCL Group (Cambridge Analytica) as special counsel closes in wapo.st/2vvcLKg
2/ Unanswered questions remain about Flynn's role in securing no-bid $500K State Dept contracts to SCL Group. wapo.st/2l3pkqA
3/ Back in February, Washington Post put together this explainer video on SCL wapo.st/2lslTun
4/ In 2015, SCL's voter analytics brand Cambridge Analytica was slurping up data from Facebook for the Cruz campaign wapo.st/1lZoVCP
5/ Back during Cruz campaign, Cambridge Analytica was doing psychographics between London and News Corp bldg. wapo.st/1M1bVSG
6/ So back to that State Dept contract for SCL. The one where they deleted logos from their website when NBC asked nbcnews.to/2uhPHKJ
7/ @textifire helped put this weird SCL Group State Dept GEC in context. medium.com/textifire/scl-…
8/ You'd think a headline like this would have raised red-flags on Nov 4, 2016? Why a foreign data company exactly? nbcnews.to/2eFWKWx
9/ @annmarlow had the SCL story pretty much figured out by late August 2016 and linked it to Manafort and Firtash. tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
10/ @WendySiegelman recently updated/re-org-ed her SCL chart based on @annmarlowe's underlying reporting/research. medium.com/@wsiegelman/sc…
11/ Flynn failed to disclose his business deal with Cambridge Analytica until after his initial offer for immunity to feds was rebuffed. And today he’s pleading guilty for lying to FBI. theguardian.com/us-news/2017/a…
12/ After today’s #FlynnFlippedFriday news, it’s worth revisiting Flynn’s mention in this important piece by @Schwartzesque “30 million Facebook users had their data harvested by Trump campaign affiliate” interc.pt/2mTAwIT
13/ In her Sunday column @JRubinBlogger includes the key question surrounding #CambridgeAnalytica in the context of questions arising with Flynn flipping. This thread highlights his tight connections to SCL/CA. wapo.st/2j9OBy1
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The paper of record missed the story of 2016. Neither the Washington Post nor the Wall Street Journal picked up the slack. The Grey Ladies failed spectacularly. They were all drunk on the horse race. They will be drunk on horse racing again in 2020.
The free press is essential to democracy but it must drop its stubborn yet profitable horse-race view-from-nowhere habit. This business model has been hacked by our adversaries. Get woke or be stupid.
Maybe I hammer the Grey Ladies so hard because they refuse to cover my consequential Cambridge Analytica legal work? I win a guilty plea but not a word of coverage by NYT, WaPo, WSJ. Yet basically all other news orgs will cover my efforts. It’s a very weird feeling.
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The best part of consuming advertising of your favorite brands is knowing your hard earned money is paying for the advertising you have just consumed.
The best part of targeted advertising for your favorite brands is knowing your private data is helping your favorite brands save money targeting you to manipulate you to spend more of your money for your favorite brand to target you for more advertising.
The pure beauty of the world imagined by Spike Jonze in “Her” (2013) is a world without advertising. It has been killed by “AI” and humans are adapting to the shift to a world without advertisers because our AI agents handle that for us in the future. medium.com/@profcarroll/s…
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The New York Times never would’ve reported on Cambridge Analytica if The Guardian wasn’t under legal assault from SCL’s lawyers. A US partner was needed.

The New York Times closed out the campaign with headlines that Trump Russia was a non-story and Clinton emails still were.
The problem with having a paper of record is having a paper of record.
We shouldn’t wait for The New York Times to decide. But we do. And we will.
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