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CA CEO with star of Robert Mueller's indictments Russian Ambassador Yakavenko. (Original Post)
sunonmars
Mar 2018
OP
Photo was taken just days after the DNC hacked files were dumped on Wikileaks
PA Democrat
Mar 2018
#3
The tweeter Carole Cadwalladr has written very good articles as part of the expose
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2018
#4
malaise
(269,119 posts)1. Oh My!
The Con knows he's cornered
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)2. It's starting to hit the buildup before the whole story is revealed....
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)3. Photo was taken just days after the DNC hacked files were dumped on Wikileaks
The footage, though, was a bit grainy. So here is a clearer shot of Nix, snapped during a polo match in which he played on July 28, 2016. He happens to be posing with Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom. The photo was taken days after Democratic National Committee files and emails hacked by Russian intelligence were dumped online by WikiLeaks at the start of the Democratic Partys convention. The previous month, the Trump campaign had hired Nixs company, and by this point, it had been widely reported that Russian intelligence was behind the DNC hack.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/heres-a-photo-of-cambridge-analyticas-ceo-with-the-russian-ambassador-to-the-uk/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,027 posts)4. The tweeter Carole Cadwalladr has written very good articles as part of the expose
Sat Mar 17
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-academic-trawling-facebook-had-links-to-russian-university
Cambridge Analytica: links to Moscow oil firm and St Petersburg university
Data company gave briefing to Moscow firm Lukoil, and the lecturer who developed the crucial algorithm worked for St Petersburg university
Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison
Sat 17 Mar 2018 21.59 GMT
Last modified on Sun 18 Mar 2018 09.43 GMT
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered. Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with which funded the project to turn tens of millions of Facebook profiles into a unique political weapon also attracted interest from a key Russian firm with links to the Kremlin.
Energy firm Lukoil, which is now on the US sanctions list and has been used as a vehicle of government influence, saw a presentation on the firms work in 2014. It began with a focus on voter suppression in Nigeria, and Cambridge Analytica also discussed micro-targeting individuals on social media during elections.
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Lukoil, Russias second-largest oil company, discussed with Cambridge Analytica the data companys powerful social media marketing system, which was already being deployed for Republican Ted Cruz in the US presidential primaries and was later used to back Brexit and Trump.
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Discussion of services offered by Cambridge Analytica was apparently going right to the top of Lukoil, even though its retail operations in America are a very minor corner of the oil and gas giants empire. Asking for a detailed presentation of Cambridge Analyticass work in July 2014, Nix told his colleague the document would be shared with the CEO of the business.
The chief executive of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, is a former Soviet oil minister who has said the strategic aims of Lukoil are closely aligned with those of Russia. I have only one task connected with politics, to help the country and the company. Im not close to Mr Putin, but I treat him with great respect, he told the New York Times.
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Data company gave briefing to Moscow firm Lukoil, and the lecturer who developed the crucial algorithm worked for St Petersburg university
Carole Cadwalladr and Emma Graham-Harrison
Sat 17 Mar 2018 21.59 GMT
Last modified on Sun 18 Mar 2018 09.43 GMT
Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge University academic who orchestrated the harvesting of Facebook data, had previously unreported ties to a Russian university, including a teaching position and grants for research into the social media network, the Observer has discovered. Cambridge Analytica, the data firm he worked with which funded the project to turn tens of millions of Facebook profiles into a unique political weapon also attracted interest from a key Russian firm with links to the Kremlin.
Energy firm Lukoil, which is now on the US sanctions list and has been used as a vehicle of government influence, saw a presentation on the firms work in 2014. It began with a focus on voter suppression in Nigeria, and Cambridge Analytica also discussed micro-targeting individuals on social media during elections.
...
Lukoil, Russias second-largest oil company, discussed with Cambridge Analytica the data companys powerful social media marketing system, which was already being deployed for Republican Ted Cruz in the US presidential primaries and was later used to back Brexit and Trump.
...
Discussion of services offered by Cambridge Analytica was apparently going right to the top of Lukoil, even though its retail operations in America are a very minor corner of the oil and gas giants empire. Asking for a detailed presentation of Cambridge Analyticass work in July 2014, Nix told his colleague the document would be shared with the CEO of the business.
The chief executive of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov, is a former Soviet oil minister who has said the strategic aims of Lukoil are closely aligned with those of Russia. I have only one task connected with politics, to help the country and the company. Im not close to Mr Putin, but I treat him with great respect, he told the New York Times.
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bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)5. Great! Cadwalladr has been ahead of this story.
She rocks!
dlk
(11,574 posts)6. They are All in Bed Together
magicarpet
(14,160 posts)9. Is that a bottle of Trump Vodka they are holding ?
Spells TRump in Russian alphabet. TY.
CousinIT
(9,253 posts)7. I wondered how Russia got CA's harvested data. Now I know.
Russia had to have a way to target its twitter bots and facebook ads. How did they know who specifically to target? Well they had CA's data of course. But my question was: How did they get it (who, when, where, etc).
Now we might have an idea...and wasn't there talk of something being handed to a Russian dude in the Trump tower (or other meeting) w/ some Russians? I seem to vaguely remember that.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)8. Is he playing Polo?
Just underscores the hypocrisy of their faux populist rise.
El Shaman
(583 posts)11. Yakavanko
If u don't follow Putin : yo ass and family go directly to jail. No politics here buddy!!