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Brittany Kaiser now talking about use of hackers in Nigeria election campaign..."the clients didn't find it useful". Um. Not really the point, Brittany, was it legal? No.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Brittany says they actually infiltrated @MBuhari's campaign. (He's now president of Nigeria). They obtained data, she says. "I didn't think it was useful," she says. Again: not the point.
She claims this is "commonplace" in politics. Computer hacking?? Really? Well only in one other political campaign I can think of. Which Brittany also worked on: Donald Trump's
Now Brittany Kaiser now defending the use of the so-called "murder video" which Cambridge Analytica used to suppress voter turn-out. By spreading lies about sharia law.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/a…
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Ugh. So here we go again. Major £££ Facebook campaign targeting dozens of Labour MPs. When is Britain going to wake up to what's going on. What went on. And how our democracy has been utterly corrupted & debased by Facebook
Constituents of target Labour MPs being sent these ads by right-wing group. Here's @YvetteCooperMP but there's dozens more. When will Labour wake up & see the issues we've uncovered aren't to do with party politics, they're to do with democracy
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NEW: Cambridge Analytica said US voter @profcarroll had no more right to know what data the company held on him than "a Taliban sitting in a cave". Today, it pleads guilty in case brought by Britain's ICO. This is a big deal. US citizens! You have..drum roll..rights to your data!
This has been a long haul for @profcarroll. We first wrote about his battle to get this data here. Today, Cambridge Analytica finally concede that he had a right to this data. Next question: will he actually get it?
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This all happening in the glamorous environs of Hendon magistrate's court. About as incongruous a location as you can imagine for qs about what data Cambridge Analytica had on 230 million US voters. Why was CA so determined not to hand it over? No answers to that today...
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Instead of shitting on other journalists, Buzzfeed, why not *do* journalism? Your biggest investor sits on Facebook's board & is a close friend of Zuck's. He's refused to answer my qs about his sale of Facebook stock - right before Cambridge Analytica story first broke. Why?
You were the main publication shitting on the Cambridge Analytica story two years ago. "Snake oil"! "Conspiracy theory"! And you've been shitting on me ever since I published Wylie's story back in March.

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It's all been just a bit odd
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💥Cambridge Analytica Just Filed For US Bankruptcy - and the filings note that Emerdata is footing the legal bills for the CA and SCL bankruptcies buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/cambri… via @RMac18
The bankruptcy filing for Cambridge Analytica notes that the American entity had assets of about $101,000 to $500,000 and liabilities between $1,000,0001 and $10 million
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Here's the Cambridge Analytica bankruptcy filing, the section 'All other names debtor used in the last 8 years' includes a company called "Anaxi Solutions Inc."
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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/…
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