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/Shot/ While Cambridge Analytica didn't do any work for LUKOIL, documents show that in 2014 LUKOIL was fully briefed on: Facebook, microtargeting, data, election disruption.
"Why would a Russian oil company want to target info on American voters?"
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/Chaser/ Vagit Alekperov, head of LUKOIL since its inception, has very close ties to Trump business partner Aras Agalarov. Both men are from Baku and are big backers of Emin Agalarov's ex father-in-law, Ilham Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan [home to Trump Tower Baku].
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^^^^ Cambridge Analytica → LUKOIL → [Baku] Agalarov → Trump
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Jul 2014: Nix “shared w/the CEO of Lukoil [Alekperov, who has close ties to Agalarov]" a detailed Cambridge Analytica presentation that included info re alarming/demoralizing voters, social media micro-targeting & voter suppression.
ht @TheRynheart #Maddow bit.ly/2GDz04p

Also in 2014: Cambridge Analytica's Kogan began advising a research team who "wanted to detect internet trolls to improve the lives of those suffering from trolling” at Russia's St Petersburg State Univ – 20 mins from the Internet Research Agency.
#Maddow reut.rs/2FWLGlH

Also in 2014: Kremlin-linked troll farm the Internet Research Agency [largely staffed by St Petersburg State Univ students] was given a budget of $1.25M/month to “spread distrust toward [US] candidates.”
Who trained them? My money is on CA's Kogan.
#Maddow theatln.tc/2pEaXuR

The SCL [Cambridge Analytica] brochure uncovered by BBC that boasted of poll interference & organizing "anti-election rallies" to suppress voting in the 2007 Nigerian election appears to be the same one Nix in 2014 showed to Russia's Lukoil CEO.
#Maddow bbc.com/news/uk-435282…

^ THREAD: Aleksandr Kogan's Cambridge Analytica research team at St Petersburg Univ → Internet Research Agency
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