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Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, for stealing user data wapo.st/2phRGOQ
"it failed to delete data that it had taken inappropriately from users of the social network"
Facebook said that Kogan had requested and gained access to information from 270,000 Facebook members after they chose to download his app. The app, “thisisyourdigitallife,” offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as “a research app used by psychologists.”
Cambridge Analytica whistleblower: 'We spent $1m harvesting millions of Facebook profiles' theguardian.com/uk-news/video/…
Cambridge Analytica, the data firm the Trump campaign used during the 2016 election, met with Russian business executives (this is aside from Alfa Group's investment in SCL Group)
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
How they set up the fake office at Cambridge for Bannon, as described by Wylie. Article includes a statement from University of Cambridge regarding Kogan/Spectre GSR/SCL varsity.co.uk/news/15193
Cambridge Analytica scrambles to pull Channel 4 exposé

Firm with links to Trump election under pressure after Facebook ban over data harvesting
ft.com/content/7ed157…
“Cambridge Analytica was meeting with Corey Lewandowski in 2015 before Trump had even announced and offering the services that I’m talking about right now,” whistleblower Christopher Wylie said today.com/video/cambridg…
2016

"Cambridge Analytica, a voter data firm in which Mercer is a key investor, has worked with the Herald Group, a DC-based consulting firm, to implement the ➡️NRA's “Trigger the Vote” drive to register new voters ⬅️ and get them to the polls"
theguardian.com/us-news/2016/s…
Cambridge Analytica executives created a company in 2017 with the Executive Director & Deputy Chairman of Erik Prince’s Frontier Services Group
January 2017

TRUMP’S DATA FIRM SNAGS RNC TECH GURU DARREN BOLDING

"Not only did it work for the Trump campaign, but Steve Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, serves on the firm's board."
Nix saying they could entrap politicians in compromising situations with bribes and Ukrainian sex workers and that they secretly campaign in elections across the world.
“It has to happen without anyone thinking: ‘that’s propaganda.’
#CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered
Brad Parscale, Jared Kushner, and Paul Manafort were the primary players involved in hiring Cambridge Analytica for the Trump campaign msnbc.com/andrea-mitchel…
"Cambridge Analytica’s website in December 2015 listed its New York address as Suite 2703 in the News Corp. building,, the same New York address formerly listed on SCL Elections’ website as its New York office." @FoxNews @rupertmurdoch

tabletmag.com/jewish-news-an…
Chris Wylie: Bannon wanted information weapons to win a culture war. Cambridge Analytica pulled data to profile exact vulnerabilities to exploit. This data was the foundation of the company. CA pitched Lewandowski
ICYMI:

Whistleblower reveals to Channel 4 News data grab of 50 million Facebook profiles by Cambridge Analytica – data firm linked to Trump win channel4.com/news/cambridge…
Wylie says Cambridge Analytica had tested Trump campaign slogans since 2014: "I was surprised when I saw the Trump campaign and it started, you know, talking about building walls or draining the swamp. And I’m remembering in my head, wait, we tested this."
Cambridge Analytica Board of Directors Suspends CEO Alexander Nix

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Facebook to brief multiple US congressional committees on Cambridge Analytica case today and Wednesday, Facebook spokesperson says - @kasie nbcnews.to/2HJDG87
Mark Zuckerberg AWOL from Facebook's data leak damage control session, @attackerman reports thebea.st/2G0sPX6
Cambridge Analytica claims it ran ‘all’ of President Trump’s digital campaign – and may have broken election law. As the report went on air, the firm announced it has suspended chief executive Alexander Nix
channel4.com/news/exposed-u…
KellyAnne Conway ran Make America No1 super-PAC–aka Defeat Crooked Hillary–until she joined Trump campaign. Then David Bossie (Citizens United) ran it before joining.

CambridgeAnalytica was their illegal conduit to the campaign.
Eighteen different committees made payments to Cambridge Analytica totaling more than $16M from June 2014 to December 2016, according to FEC filings, including @AmbJohnBolton.
fec.gov/data/disbursem…
fec.gov/data/disbursem…
“We had to get Bannon to approve everything at this point. Bannon was Alexander Nix’s boss,” said Wylie, who was Cambridge Analytica’s research director. “Alexander Nix didn’t have the authority to spend that much money without approval.” washingtonpost.com/politics/banno…
Cambridge Analytica executives created a company with the Executive Director & Deputy Chairman of Erik Prince’s Frontier Services Group medium.com/@wsiegelman/ca…
In this video @alamocitychick says Cambridge provided her with a record of who people voted for. That's not legal.
Cambridge Analytica was offered politicians' hacked emails, witnesses say
Hackers offered personal data about future Nigerian president and future PM of St Kitts and Nevis, sources say theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Wisconsin GOP operative Mark Block played key role in linking Steve Bannon and Facebook-mining Cambridge Analytica jsonl.in/2GQInOl
Business Insider follows up on @WendySiegelman's story:

The power players behind Cambridge Analytica have set up a mysterious new data company
businessinsider.com/cambridge-anal…
Facebook gave data about 57bn friendships to academic
Volume of data suggests trusted partnership with Aleksandr Kogan, says analyst theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix called black clients ‘n*ggers’ in leaked email
rawstory.com/2018/03/cambri…
The Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower Said He Wanted To Create “The NSA’s Wet Dream”
buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/christ…
.@CamAnalytica deleted case study for Make America Number 1 Again PAC archive.is/fvEfm
The behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica wage psychological warfare independent.co.uk/voices/cambrid…
Whistleblower says Steve Bannon, Rebekah Mercer & Alexander Nix were “absolutely” warned that Cambridge Analytica activities violated American election laws
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Imagine being this willfully ignorant.
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On the second episode of Hasan Minhaj’s new show, he highlights the role Saudi money plays in propping up Silicon Valley companies. Now @Netflix has removed the episode at the request of the Saudi government. ft.com/content/5121f0…
The episode was only pulled in the KSA.
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Russia's domestic security agency says it has arrested U.S. citizen Paul Whelan on espionage charges. The FSB said that the American man detained in Moscow on Friday.
Spying charges carry a prison sentence of up to 20 years in Russia. cbsnews.com/amp/news/paul-…
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The previous chapters of my readthrough are here, if you want to catch up:
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@Secy_State_US Senate Intel report: Russia waged an "unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign" against US voting systems.

Russia-linked hackers were in a position to "alter or delete voter registration data" in a small number of states before the election
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Joseph Chancellor, founding co-director (with Aleksandr Kogan) of GSR, the company which harvested information from 50 million Facebook users and sold it to Cambridge Analytica, was hired as in-house psychologist by Facebook 2 months after leaving GSR theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Facebook investigating links between employee Joseph Chancellor, former co-director of Aleksandr Kogan's GSR, and #CambridgeAnalytica
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In a case that could shed light on how millions of American voters were targeted online in the run-up to the 2016 election, NY professor @profcarroll sues #CambridgeAnalytica in a British court
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‘We are suspending Strategic Communication Laboratories-SCL- and their political data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, from Facebook. Given the public prominence of this organization, we want to take a moment to explain how we came to this decision.’ newsroom.fb.com/news/h/suspend…
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National politics correspondent for Newsweek, Nina Burleigh, with a fun find on a TV above the bar at the Trump Hotel DC bit.ly/2E37QRR
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What a year - and a monumental, round the clock effort - it has been to stay on top of Trump and his administration.

If you've wondered how it began or why I do this, here is the back story.

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