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House Dems Say Christopher Wylie Provided New Info About Cambridge Analytica's Links To WikiLeaks
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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.
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"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
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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
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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…

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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.
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"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"
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"Ioffe described the troll factory more fully:

[It] was largely staffed by college students from the prestigious St. Petersburg State University"
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The Internet Research Agency AKA The Troll Factory:

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"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."
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"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

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Infowars logo found in AIQ database.

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Cambridge Analytica wanted to crack Trump’s Washington and the British government promised to help, official emails reveal buzzfeed.com/alexspence/the…

Chris Wilson: Director of Research, Analytics and Digital Strategy for the 2016 Ted Cruz presidential campaign. Wilson also served as a strategic advisor on campaigns in Israel, Russia, England, Ukraine, and Turkey.
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Wednesday's FT: "Nix 'withdrew $8m' as scandal loomed at Cambridge Analytica" (via @MsHelicat) #tomorrowspaperstoday

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Chris Vickery found a config file which appears to succinctly illustrate interplay between AIQ, Cambridge Analytica, and Breitbart.

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Cambridge Analytica Chief ‘Withdrew $8M’ From Company Linked To Trump’s Wealthy Supporters
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Emails by Arron Banks and his sidekick Andy Wigmore reveal an extensive web of links between Banks’s Leave[.]EU campaign and Russian officials.
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On 16 November, Yakovenko invited them to an evening meeting at the Russian embassy. It is not clear if they attended but the next day, 17 November, Leave[.]EU held its launch event – with Brittany Kaiser of Cambridge Analytica. 
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"Ambassador Yakovenko met Wigmore and Banks on 19 August, the day Steve Bannon became Trump’s campaign manager. It was days before they travelled to Mississippi with Nigel Farage for a rally on 25 August at which Donald Trump introduced him to the crowds as “Mr Brexit”."

"Mr Banks admitted that he handed over telephone numbers for members of Mr Trump’s transition team to Russian officials, according to The Sunday Times."
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