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We now know that Cambridge Analytica harvested data on 50Million people from Facebook. Additionally, C-A had data on approximately 230 million people. It used this data to influence the outcome of US elections, BEFORE the 2016. Stay woke. 1/

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A simple background on Cambridge Analytica: C-A is owned by Robert Mercer, a major financier behind the GOP. Steve Bannon is a 'previous' board member and was VP at one time. 2/
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge…
Bannon sold his Cambridge Analytica stake just last fall and was fined for his late ethics report. 3/

mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
Cambridge Analytica harvested user data from FB through those cute little quizzes as well as through Facebook’s reaction buttons. Our European counterparts warned their citizens not to use them. 4/

telegraph.co.uk/technology/201…
C-A staff claim Cambridge Analytica ignored US ban on foreigners working on elections - In the 2014 midterm elections and the Trump campaign, firm was staffed mainly by young Britons and Canadians. 5/

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
In addition to the quizzes, phony accounts were created on Facebook to spread propaganda (aka Fake News) during the 2016 election. 6/
m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_58…

Here’s a few examples:
It’s not just the US - Russia used Facebook to try to spy on the Macron campaign by creating phony Facebook personas in order to influence the French election in favor of far right-wing candidate, La Pen. 7/ ca.reuters.com/article/topNew…
A year ago, it wasn’t only reported that Facebook failed to protect 30 million users from having their data harvested by Trump campaign affiliates, when confronted, Zuckerberg stated, "To think it influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.”
static.theintercept.com/amp/facebook-f…
Zuckerberg has since apologized, having gone from “crazy” to “regret” on the issue of disinformation posted on Facebook. 9/

businessinsider.com/facebook-chang…
However, this morning, Facebook has suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica’s whistle blower, Christopher Wylie. ( @chrisinsilico ) for no apparent reason other than he called FB out. 10/
More on Christopher Wylie who bravely blew the whistle on Cambridge Analytica 11/
In a disturbing video, here’s more on how the Trump campaign used Facebook to influence the 2016 election:
(H/T @timcastantine ) 12/
A few past Cambridge Analytica clients include Cruz, Carson, and Trump. A British firm, other countries are also clients...

Ted Cruz used C-A over 2 years ago, when it harvested data on millions of unwitting Facebook users. 13/
theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d…
Currently, Trump’s new 2020 campaign manager, Brad Parscale (.@parscale - who also worked on his 2016 campaign) has extensive ties to Cambridge Analytica. 14/
vox.com/platform/amp/2…
Before the 2016 US election, Cambridge Analytica also played a major part in the Brexit campaign. A brief graphic on the ties: 15/
Cambridge Analytica was employed to work in Kenya's 2017 presidential election.
➡️ bbc.in/2eKgv1c

Reports of fraud & hacking soon followed. 16/
Primarily because of Cambridge Analytica, Kenya's Supreme Court declared their presidential election result null and ordered a do-over. 17/

amp.usatoday.com/amp/624115001?…
Cambridge Analytica has links to a Russian oil firm, Lukoil & St. Petersburg university. Lukoil is on the US sanctions list. C-A gave a briefing to Lukoil & the lecturer who developed the algorithm &worked for St Petersburg university. 18/

theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
It’s not just fed elections: 2 C-A staffers previously worked for WI state .@GovWalker. Reminder: WI,
45 won* by 22,748 votes. GOP say data operation helped Trump win WI, will be strong in 2018 races. Data Ops suggests voters were targeted in some way. 19
As a reminder, one of the first acts by Trump and the GOP was to take away your privacy online. 20/
(h/t @second_sasha )

techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/hou…
There is good news on all of this: The AG of Massachusetts is launching an investigation on both Cambridge Analytica and Facebook and their influence on the US elections. We are furthere aware of the disinformation. 21/
We Are At War with a hostile foreign power. This is just 1 way Russia continues its attack on our democracy. Their intent is to divide & conquer. We’re enabling this to happen-by the click of a button. And a GOP run Congress that continues to deny or take any meaningful action.
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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