THREAD: As I've reported since March last year, the data operation which was used to manipulate the election of Donald Trump (and the Brexit referendum) was comprised of a number of parties. @traciemac_Bmore
The Mercers, Bannon and Cambridge Analytica are central to this scheme. We reported last year that CA data included improperly harvested personal information of Facebook users, a fact now confirmed by Facebook. narativ.org/2017/09/05/psy…
Another key player was Peter Thiel, a co-founder of Facebook and a close friend of Jared Kushner who ran Trump's digital media operation. Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire who owns a data mining firm used in military and policing. narativ.org/2017/08/18/a-p… @traciemac_Bmore
Now theres another link between Palantir and Cambridge Analytica.
Was Palantir an unwitting client or also part of the scheme? Palantir and Cambridge Analytica are also connected through Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn who was compromised by contacts with the Kremlin. narativ.org/2017/05/09/the…
And Palantir founder Peter Thiel is also close to mercenary Erik Prince. Prince is Betsy DeVos' brother and is close to Vice President Mike Pence. @traciemac_Bmore narativ.org/2017/08/17/tro…
Betsy DeVos's husband Dick DeVos owns Spectrum Health which has been swept up in the data scandal through the mysterious Trump Tower server connected to Spectrum and Russia's Alfa bank. narativ.org/2017/04/08/dia…
