UPDATE: Oh, look. Another one of those strange Russian connections that keep popping up:
Trump campaign data firm met with top Russian figures: report https://t.co/AUMaECLcPp pic.twitter.com/2yg4BjSuHF
— The Hill (@thehill) March 17, 2018
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Here's some really big news. Facebook says that instead of destroying data they got through a Facebook app, Cambridge Analytica kept it and used it to target political ads for you-know-who:
Here’s our story on Facebook banning Cambridge Analytica after reports that it abused data from 270,000 people. https://t.co/vSlFCKF2WZ
— Elizabeth Dwoskin (@lizzadwoskin) March 17, 2018
So Cambridge Analytica fraudulently obtained Facebook user data and then used it to run election ads on Donald Trump’s behalf https://t.co/8ZhEeMPAZK pic.twitter.com/Q0qIzIEMKK
— Casey Newton (@CaseyNewton) March 17, 2018
US professor @profcarroll has just filed a legal claim against Cambridge Analytica over its use of his personal data. Read Carroll's claim: https://t.co/XIB1wZvDkw Background: https://t.co/clGUXvSRXU
— Andy Kroll (@AndyKroll) March 16, 2018
When I visited Cambridge Analytica nearly three years ago, they wouldn’t explain how their data jumped from social-media apps to a voter file. Now we learn: they were laundering it from Facebook profiles. https://t.co/wJtXZjIhqN https://t.co/bzGyT3RxTE
— Sasha Issenberg (@sissenberg) March 17, 2018
A reminder that the head of Cambridge Analytica wrote in an email last year that he reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to ask for help finding Hillary Clinton’s missing 33,000 emails.
And Julian Assange has confirmed this.https://t.co/mcULWkGBfU— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 17, 2018
Here's one of my mega-threads on Cambridge Analytica and their work for the Trump campaign, including their links to Bannon, Kushner, Flynn, Erik Prince, and the Mercer family (as well as their work on the Brexit campaign). https://t.co/kXXNc22AH2
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) March 17, 2018
Cambridge Analytica was an integral part of Trump's campaign, especially its "Project Alamo" data modeling run out of the San Antonio office + profiled here: https://t.co/JWl6d7PpSi https://t.co/Zwxpm4fkK0
— Joshua Green (@JoshuaGreen) March 17, 2018
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach https://t.co/LUBN8M7J5a
— The Guardian (@guardian) March 17, 2018
