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"I wouldn’t say it was just because of Donald Trump, but Donald Trump makes it click in your head that this actually has a much wider impact." "I don’t think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Wylie told House Democrats Tuesday that Steve Bannon directed staff to test messaging in 2014 about Vladmir Putin and Russian expansion in Eastern Europe.
Wylie: Bannon directed Cambridge Analytica to research voter suppression methods hill.cm/tm714qQ
Facebook didn’t read the terms and conditions for the app behind Cambridge Analytica wapo.st/2KcjsG1
House Dems Say Christopher Wylie Provided New Info About Cambridge Analytica's Links To WikiLeaks
buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/ho…
Twitter sold data to Aleksandr Kogan. telegraph.co.uk/technology/201…
Cambridge Analytica Is "Shutting Down" gizmodo.com/cambridge-anal…
"@WendySiegelman told the BBC that she was particularly intrigued by Emerdata's appointment of the Chinese businessman Johnson Chun Shun Ko as one of its directors in January."

"He has a business partnership with Erik Prince" bbc.com/news/technolog…
Konstantin Kilimnik found himself a partner in Sam Patten, a lobbyist and political hand who just happens to have worked previously for Cambridge Analytica.
thedailybeast.com/accused-russia…
"Patten acknowledged his collaboration with Kilimnik on Begemot. Patten also confirmed his work with Cambridge Analytica, saying he assisted the firm’s U.S. operations in 2014, and also worked with the company on “several overseas campaigns.”"
As Cambridge Analytica and SCL Elections shut down, SCL Group's defence work needs real scrutiny | openDemocracy opendemocracy.net/uk/emma-l-bria…
Revealed: The emails between Boris Johnsin's Foreign Office and Cambridge Analytica
bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/05/05/rev…
Cambridge Analytica is dead – but its obscure network is alive and well theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Justice Department and F.B.I. Are Investigating Cambridge Analytica
mobile.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/us/…
AggregateIQ COO, Jeff Silvester appears before British Parliament committee pscp.tv/w/bcwuMTFlUkV4…
Steve Bannon said to use Cambridge Analytica to try to suppress African-American vote during the 2016 presidential election apple.news/AB5KKvdJRR16XT…


Hard proof from @facebook shows Vote Leave & BeLeave shared multiple datasets. It's illegal for campaigns to co-ordinate. Unless they declare spending jointly. (They didn't.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
"Aleksandr Kogan advised a team at St Petersburg State University that was exploring whether psychopathy, narcissism and machiavellianism - dubbed the 'dark triad' by psychologists - were linked to abusive online behavior"
reuters.com/article/us-fac…
"Ioffe described the troll factory more fully:

[It] was largely staffed by college students from the prestigious St. Petersburg State University"
theatlantic.com/international/…
The Internet Research Agency AKA The Troll Factory:
"the Bovdas have been called “paid commenters.” On social media, people claiming to be the Bovdas’ friends and former teachers have said Robert and Maria were students in the psychology department at St. Petersburg State University."
meduza.io/en/feature/201…
"Christopher Wylie, who leaked information on the British-based firm's hijacking of data on millions of Facebook users, told a Senate panel he believes Russian intelligence services had access to data harvested by the consultancy." afp.com/en/news/205/ca…
"Wylie told the panel that Russian-American researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who created an application to harvest Facebook user profile data, was working at the same time on Russian-funded projects, including "behavioral research.""
Leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage just personally thanked Mark Zuckerberg For Trump, Brexit, and the rise of populism in Italy buzzfeed.com/markdistefano/…
Psy Group issued a contract proposal with Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group
Infowars logo found in AIQ database.
Cambridge Analytica wanted to crack Trump’s Washington and the British government promised to help, official emails reveal buzzfeed.com/alexspence/the…
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