Cambridge Analytica presentation to Russian Lukoil in 2014 "focused on election disruption"

[sunonmars]

Link to tweet

“It didn’t make any sense to me,” says (whistleblower Christopher) Wylie. “I didn’t understand either the email or the pitch presentation we did. Why would a Russian oil company want to target information on American voters?”


The noose is tightening.....read this, its explosive......this was their game.

[octoberlib]

1. Excellent! Thanks for posting.

[poboy2]

2. MUST READ

[dalton99a]

3. Longish, but important article

[Tatiana]

4. Now it all starts to make sense. n/t

[Wwcd]

5. Feel like the door is being pryed open more & more.

We had hints of something dark, looming & sinister as early as 2015.

Its reaffirming to hear this finally being spoken by those on the inside.

Wow.
Thanks for posting this.

[TubbersUK]

6. This bit is eye-catching too

Dr Kogan – who later changed his name to Dr Spectre, but has subsequently changed it back to Dr Kogan – is still a faculty member at Cambridge University, a senior research associate. But what his fellow academics didn’t know until Kogan revealed it in emails to the Observer (although Cambridge University says that Kogan told the head of the psychology department), is that he is also an associate professor at St Petersburg University. Further research revealed that he’s received grants from the Russian government to research “Stress, health and psychological wellbeing in social networks”. The opportunity came about on a trip to the city to visit friends and family, he said.

[Stallion]

9. Yeah He Was Actually Born in Russia Too

Aleksandr Kogan, data miner
Aleksandr Kogan was born in Moldova and lived in Moscow until the age of seven, then moved with his family to the US, where he became a naturalised citizen. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and got his PhD at the University of Hong Kong before joining Cambridge as a lecturer in psychology and expert in social media psychometrics. He set up Global Science Research (GSR) to carry out CA’s data research. While at Cambridge he accepted a position at St Petersburg State University, and also took Russian government grants for research. He changed his name to Spectre when he married, but later reverted to Kogan.

[dalton99a]

10. Highly revealing bit of info.

[Anon-C]

7. Kick and Rec!

[Stallion]

8. I bet I've Spent About 2 Hours Today Reading These breaking Cambridge Analytica Stories Today

Looks like Christopher Wylie is ready to blow this story up

[Wwcd]

11. Here's his youtube video

I posted in video/MM

Will link this great thread
Thanks

[poboy2]

12. MSNBC running a feature on this now

[renate]

15. was it good?

I wish I hadn't missed it.

[Snarkoleptic]

13. I'm curious to know which Facebook apps Kogan used to harvest the data.

Seems an important bit of info.

[PA Democrat]

16. "thisisyourdigitallife" app according to the Washington Post

Facebook revealed on Friday that a voter profiling firm hired by Donald Trump and other Republicans had improperly used data from 270,000 users of the social media platform. But what Facebook didn’t say may be more important: The number of people affected by this aggressive form of data grabbing likely numbered in the tens of millions.

The reason concerns the nature of how Facebook handled its users’ data before rising privacy concerns prompted it to tighten its policies against what critics have called an egregious kind of abuse — allowing app developers to gain access to information not only on their customers but also on their customers’ many Facebook friends.

This technique, once widely used but now severely restricted, meant that officials affiliated with the voter profiling firm, Cambridge Analytica, could gain access to basic demographics and the Facebook “likes” of all of the friends of the 270,000 people who downloaded an app called “thisisyourdigitallife.” If the people who downloaded the app averaged 200 “friends” each, that could lead to the collection of data on more than 50 million Facebook users.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/03/17/a-voter-profiling-firm-hired-by-trump-likely-grabbed-data-for-tens-of-millions-of-facebook-users/?utm_term=.7bab69e26208

[Snarkoleptic]

17. Fascinating and horrifying!

Thanks for sharing.

[PA Democrat]

14. Recommended! Thank you for posting this fascinating article.

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You have to wonder what Mueller's investigation of Cambridge Analytica has yielded.

[sunonmars]

19. I bet Mueller knows a lot more than is contained here.....

[DemocracyMouse]

22. I'll bet Muellar has an entire team dedicated to scanning the media. Help from the media

...isn't trivial.

[dchill]

18. K&R.

[Hekate]

20. KnR. I hope the whistleblower lives to an old age. nt

[blue-wave]

21. You are absolutely

correct. "The noose is tightening."

Let's not forget that McCabe is, shall I say, extremely knowledgeable on how the Russians operate their criminal enterprises. Per his statement on his firing "I have been an FBI Special Agent for over 21 years. I spent half of that time investigating Russian Organized Crime as a street agent and Supervisor in New York City"

And he gets fired just as Mueller subpoenas Trump Organization documents on Russia and The Cambridge Analytica news breaks? The timing of McCabe's firing is not just about his pension, that's just part and very possibly a small part, of the story.

[spike91nz]

23. Mercers

Cambridge Analytica and Mercermust be held accountable for their lack of moral concern for subverting democracy. We cannot permit economic inequality to rise to this point where the psychological predisposition of one wealthy individual can supplant the will of the people and their self governance.