Thread by @veritasta

Totally rampacked, as Corbyn would say, at Frontline Club for talk w @chrisinsilico and @carolecadwalla

Or rather, not @carolecadwalla as she can't be here 😞

Much lauding of Carole's patience, thoroughness - refers to a new media partner as yet unknown.

Wylie says he was the source of Carole's May article

That's this:
theguardian.com/technology/201…

Wylie questions how FB can treat him as a suspect when he's been cooperating with the ICO and the authorities for months, and has drawn attention to all this himself.

Interesting observation : "People will say 'I'm Labour; I'm Tory - but Lib Dems say, ' I vote Lib Dem.'" Wylie ascribes this to every lib dem choosing the party, rather than being born into it, etc.

There's sth interesting abt political tribalism here, I think.

This is being broadcast, ironically, on Facebook btw, if you want to try to tune in at the Frontline Club

Describing digital battlefield ideas: 'It's about changing the perception of your opponent so that they make mistakes'

'Where 40yrs ago you could target a General, now you can target an entire nation.'

Refers to Nix entrapment tactics as creating kompromat. (I hadn't made that connection before)

On to Bannon now: In the beginning, Breitbart was 'a blog for angry white dudes'...

Discussing how adjectives that describe personalities apply to culture too: Wylie feels personalities are the atoms of culture. 'What you want to do is to start a trend', Wylie told Bannon.

If you can label attributes of ppl you want to shift, you can target these segments (ish)

Wylie describes the militant vision of Bannon paired with quiet, brilliant, switched-on tech billionaire Mercer as a perfect storm

Wylie: SCL elections assigned all of its IP to CA. CA licensed its IP to SCL elections - thus all the work CA got went to SCL Elections.

(Unmentioned: AggIQ, who Vote Leave paid, is linked to SCL by an IP license)
#CambridgeAnalyticaUncovered

Wylie: 'If you own a set of companies, you can move money between them and it isn't a political donation. So you can fund as much as you want without having to report it.'

Wylie: 'You can have all the data science in the world, but if you ask the wrong question, you're monitoring the wrong thing.'

'Drain the swamp' came from talking to people - the phrase just came up a number of times, Wylie says. They tested it, of course.

Wylie: Trump's wall works bc it's a symbol of separation, not because it stops illegal migrants (it won't, he says). If it exists in people's minds, that's what matters.

Wylie says his predecessor Dan was working in Kenya - he was found dead, and that's why Wylie was employed.

Wylie questioned about his FB post saying 'Great, we won!' after Brexit. Says he's Eurosceptic but not a Brexiteer. Claims he can't be European bc he's Canadian (um... What?)

Annoyingly doesn't get picked up on what he meant by 'we'

Questions now starting at #frontlineclub. Just figured out I should have been using this hashtag... Ah well

Q: how much were dark arts used in Brexit? Wylie can't comment on Brexit bc he didn't work on it.

(What about introducing AggIQ to CA, as Carole said in one of her articles?)

Wylie: Russia knew we had a huge dataset that could plug into advertising, etc., as they were talking to Lukoil, which was connected w the FSB. Lukoil wasn't a terribly secure company.

#Cambridgeanalytica #frontlineclub

Wylie: on CA and Brexit. He can't comment but why was Kaiser at the Leave.Eu launch? Why did Wigmore and Banks post they worked together, if they weren't involved?

You have to be a voter or business who does UK business to be a legal partner:it's for CA to answer

Q: how did Wylie know to save all this stuff? Was he planning to leak?

Wylie evades. Said he felt iffy about it.

PS : Wylie's allusion to another media partner (and perhaps, the absence of AggIQ from conversation) confirms more revelations are on the way. Other sources confirm this. Stay tuned!

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