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💥Cambridge Analytica closing operations following Facebook Data controversy wsj.com/articles/cambr…
"Nigel Oakes, the founder of SCL Group, Cambridge Analytica’s British affiliate, confirmed that both companies were closing down."
wsj.com/articles/cambr…
do you know if they are also shutting down Emerdata Ltd and Firecrest Technologies Ltd?
medium.com/@wsiegelman/ch…
Interesting that story says they are shutting down, but yesterday on UK Companies House, SCL/CA's new company Emerdata shows 2 filings being processing (available soon)
- Resolution of removal of pre-emption rights
- Resolution of allotment of securities
beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/109118…
Cambridge Analytica and Scl Elections Commence Insolvency Proceedings and Release Results of Independent Investigation into Recent Allegations HT @leahmcelrath
ca-commercial.com/news/cambridge…
The announcement above👆🏼about insolvency proceedings specifically mentions SCL Elections and affiliate Cambridge Analytica cos but does NOT mention SCL Group Ltd, SCL Insight Ltd, SCL Analytics Ltd, etc (not to mention Emerdata or Firecrest Technologies)
medium.com/@wsiegelman/sc…
Important point from @DamianCollins about need to preserve SCL/CA data, HT @painter_nancy
I just saw that the story was broken first by by @melaniehannah
gizmodo.com/cambridge-anal…
Cambridge Analytica: Closure "will not stop investigation" - the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said its investigation will still "pursue individuals and directors"
bbc.com/news/uk-439851…
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Exclusive: Special counsel Robert Mueller sought information and met last year in February with Tony Fabrizio — one of Donald Trump's campaign pollsters who is also Paul Manafort’s former business associate, by @SaraMurray @kpolantz cnn.com/2019/01/10/pol…
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Two stories today about UAE selling off two huge NYC real estate investments

One story is about Abu Dhabi government fund & Tishman Speyer putting the Chrysler Building on the market - Abu Dhabi Investment Council had paid $800 million for a 90% stake
therealdeal.com/2019/01/09/abu…
And a majority stake in 330 Madison Ave owned by the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is heading to the sales market at pricing expected to reach nearly $1 billion
nypost.com/2019/01/08/mos…
I don't know that these two sales have any significance, but the size of the deals seems notable and worth keeping an eye on.
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Manafort intended for polling data to go to Ukrainian oligarchs Serhiy Lyovochkin & Rinat Akhmetov - Manafort wrote in an August '16 email he expected $2.4 million payment in Nov 2016 for work done in Ukraine - from backers including Lyovochkin & Akhmetov
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Oh bin ça alors holala quelle surprise c'est vraiment incroyable mince alors

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1/ Here's a roundup thread of today's coverage on the #CambridgeAnalytica closure announcement
2/ WSJ: Cambridge Analytica Closing Operations Following Facebook Data Controversy: The data company had lost clients in recent months wsj.com/articles/cambr…
3/ Gizmodo: Cambridge Analytica Is Shutting Down [Updated] gizmodo.com/cambridge-anal…
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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/…
Facebook investigating links between employee Joseph Chancellor, former co-director of Aleksandr Kogan's GSR, and #CambridgeAnalytica
(h/t @RVAwonk via @AdamParkhomenko) cnnmon.ie/2HIFWMW
In a case that could shed light on how millions of American voters were targeted online in the run-up to the 2016 election, NY professor @profcarroll sues #CambridgeAnalytica in a British court
cnn.it/2pjOySH
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
FB 2018: "We learned a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us…by passing data from an app…using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government… military work around the globe." FB knew in 2015
"purpose of Kogan’s work was to develop an algorithm for the 'national profiling capacity of American citizens' as part of SCL’s work on U.S. elections, according to an internal document signed by an SCL employee describing the research"– 3/2017 report theintercept.com/2017/03/30/fac…
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