Right now MSNBC is showing parts of it (Ali Velshi). If Facebook knew CA was doing this in 2015, why are they only auditing it NOW!!! And AFTER the horse gets out of the barn!!!! Fuckerberg is GUILTY of electing the moron too.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10378384

Wylie (the whistleblower) told the interviewer that he erased all the data from his Facebook account BEFORE they asked him to do so IN A LETTER. He wrote back that he already did so and that was it. Facebook NEVER even checked to see if he had. If our govt thinks that Fuckerberg is going to audit CA through his own company and all will be safe and secure they are more stupid than I already thought. An outside, non partisan auditing company (Mueller's team should do it if possible...I trust them) should be chosen by a legit company with no govt ties.

This is through the looking glass, professional mind-fuckery.
The blackmail...and the CA rep behind his desk, nakedly talking about playing to peoples fears.

"Elections are won on emotions, not facts'. They have preference for lies and 'fake news' to stir emotions.


Thank you for your summary. I need to watch more.

Link to tweet

From octoberlib:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10376814


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTrQ7HXWRRxr7OsOtodr2_w

Hilarious that I found this tweet on Benjamin Wittes feed -

Link to tweet

America is waiting for yet another crapload of KGOP republican mindf*ckery chicanery low-down anti-American BETRAYAL & TREASON MOST VILE to hit the political fan.

just in case it "disappears"

I thought Stephanie Ruhl's basic explanation of what they've been up to was pretty dynamite this morning, and I've been reading about this for some time.

And I do mean "took".

My recollection is that Francis Urquhart murders Roger O'Neil with rat poison and later murders Mattie Storin by throwing her off the Roof Garden of the Houses of Parliament.

The UK version of "House of Cards" should be the point of reference, since Cambridge Analytica is a UK company ("Cambridge" referring to the one on the River Cam, not the one on the River Charles).

And where are the protests about US Election interference by the British?

have additional ownership information about control of CA. We know that Mercer has a stake in CA, and we know they have participated in at least 44 US elections.

The difference is that the Kremlin and Putin have been involved in influencing our elections, not just a rogue Russian company.

I'm going to make sure to watch this! Sure sucks to be "tRump and friends" today (everyday for that matter)
Celtic

You are awesome for sharing this very very important information!

Let's expose this corruption and save our democracy.

Expose these criminals! We cannot let this be forgotten. Psychops on civilians and total corporate fascism!

Link to tweet

Even if blocked, it will probably be made available soon after in the page for previous shows.

http://www.channel4.com/now/c4

https://www.channel4.com/news/programmes/2018/03/18/1830 has Sunday's clips.

https://www.channel4.com/news/programmes/2018/03/19/1900 looks like it will have today's clips.

It isn't available for me, either.

Did they succeed? We don't have access here in central Florida.

It seems likely that YouTube would also eventually run the whole documentary, right?

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action they would take including bringing in Ukrainian girls to seduce.

Thanks for posting! Good job!

Still... this IS astonishing.

it is definitely worth watching.

our privacy, and now it turns out our psyches and our nation, from what the internet has made possible. No matter how the Republicans drag their feet, they will happen.

I hope everyone who watched this noted that a major goal was to change the culture of America. That didn't start with Bannon but back in the 1970s with people like the Kochs and other very wealthy archconservatives, and they went to work through all our institutions, including by changing our universities and plugging well trained graduates into influential positions.

We should be wondering what Americans would be without these evil machinations, so we can look forward to what we will someday once again be. Less than perfect, but not nuts. As Barney Frank might put it.

I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. When we start to learn of the subcontracted companies, a whole lot of evil doings are going to be exposed. Buckle up.

That Trump probably got kompromat on all his GOP primary opponents from Cambridge Analytical? Gee, maybe this is why they're all falling into line. You can bet cambridge dug up dirt on every single one, including the whole party.

So Dear GOP: Tell your wives about the affair and stop hijacking our country.

it would blow up in their faces. But perhaps there might actually be one or two compromised. That's shockingly believable when there should be none as we never saw such an astonishing lineup of sleazy nutcases and hyenas on a debate stage. All of them, no.

But I sorta think you (hardly alone here) are vastly overestimating Trump's competence in making him the chief villain and mastermind. He couldn't mastermind himself into his pajamas. He couldn't evenstand by Rosenstein's very valid reason for firing Comey--his highly unethical and probably subversive activities affecting the election. After ordering up a genuine excuse, Trump admitted on public TV and to the Russian ambassador in front of cameras that he'd done it to shut down the Russia investigation. (!!!!! !!!!! !!!!!)

If I were among those supporting him from the background with illicit information, the VERY last thing I'd do would be to tell Trump any secrets that could put me in prison.

But with cambridge and putins assistance, why not? He was known as a dirt collector prior to the election, and Im sure he doesnt do that on his own, but via his personal lawyer. Its certainly in his nature.

As for kompromat on the GOP, I remember early after the election it was rumored that trump had sexual kompromat on various GOP at his various trump hotels. Maybe just rumor, but it wouldnt surprise me.

Youre right, its probably not the whole GOP, but some may be changing behavior to protect other repub members. And the gop primary candidates its more than likely cambridge dug up dirt on them during the primaries, especially seeing the video and how they operate.

lockdown, hoping dirty ops will somehow bring them through this.

When the traditional public servant types were driven out of GOP politics by increasing corruption, they were replaced by people who would do whatever big funders required. So the easiest thing in the world to believe is that a lot of those would be blackmail-able.

...and the media still berates Hillary for everything she does. Saw CNN the other day touting that Hill should be giving her views on the 2016 electorate. GMAFB...so tired of this sh#t.

it made them complacent, overconfident, and sloppy.

There's a lot of moving parts but this thread should be included

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210379333

as well as this



There's a lot of information about CA in this thread I posted in February 2017



https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028716802


And more from this threads from this past weekend


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142016046

and of course these ties from Silicon Valley to Russian Mafia



There's a lot of interesting Russian ties to Silcon Valley, Facebook, Digital Skies, Zynga -facebook games, Air BNB, Spotify, Slack, and so much more

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html?mtrref=www.google.com&gwh=DA0D674CBF7C2F13611890CAB2434CCE&gwt=pay


https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/3286-facebook-are-you-interfacing-with-the-russian-mafia--kgb


Andrey Ternovskiy, one of Russia's wunderkind Internet entrepreneurs, is being courted by venture capitalists the world over. To get access to cash he needn't leave Moscow, but he doesn't want to do business with the billionaire oligarchs tied to the Russian Mafia and Putin's KGB-FSB machine in the Kremlin.

So, earlier this year the 18-year-old founder of Chatroullet, a webcam-based conversation website, came to the United States to meet with investors. Ternovskiy didn't tell anyone his itinerary. Nevertheless, when he arrived in New York, there was a chauffer-driven limo waiting for him, courtesy of Yuri Milner and Digital Sky Technologies (DST), Russia's hottest investment company.

Ternovskiy reportedly has rebuffed DST's efforts, describing them as "harassing and hounding."

Ryan Tate at gawker.com appropriately describes the DST limo episode as "creepy." However, the experience goes beyond "creepy," illustrating the nexus between Russia's "business" community and it's intelligence structures. How did DST know Ternovskiy's flight schedule? There are a number of ways that DST could have gotten that information, nearly all of which would be illegal in any country where the "rule of law" is more than merely an empty slogan. But considering DST's high-level ties to Vladimir Putin's KGB-FSB police-state apparatus, obtaining Ternovskiy's airline itinerary must have been child's play.

The Russian teenager is demonstrating better business sense and greater ethical judgment than American corporations, such as social network behemoth Facebook and Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs. Over the past year, DST has made several large investments in Facebook, and now holds a ten percent share in the company, which boasts more than 500 million users worldwide — and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate.

DST, which has also invested heavily in Zynga, the online social network game developer (FarmVille, FrontierVille, Mafia Wars [above], etc.), and Groupon, a deal-of-the-day website, has a billion dollars to invest in Internet companies and, reportedly, is also looking at buying into Twitter.


https://www.wired.com/2011/10/mf_milner/


Ties to Kushner


https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/05/russia-funded-facebook-twitter-investments-kushner-investor





The investments were made through a Russian technology magnate, Yuri Milner, who also holds a stake in a company co-owned by Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser.

The discovery is likely to stir concerns over Russian influence in US politics and the role played by social media in last year’s presidential election. It may also raise new questions for the social media companies and for Kushner.


Alexander Vershbow, who was a US ambassador to Russia under George W Bush and to Nato under Bill Clinton, said the Russian state institutions were frequently used as “tools for Putin’s pet political projects”.

Vershbow said the findings were concerning in light of efforts by Moscow to disrupt US democracy and public debate. “There clearly was a wider plan, despite Putin’s protestations to the contrary,” he said.


The investments are detailed in the Paradise Papers, a trove of millions of leaked documents reviewed by the Guardian, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and other partners, along with other previously unreported filings.

Facebook and Twitter were not made aware that funding for the investments came from the state-controlled VTB Bank and a financial arm of the state oil and gas firm Gazprom, according to Milner.

The files show that in 2011, VTB funded a $191m investment in Twitter. About the same time, Gazprom Investholding financed an opaque offshore company, which in turn funded a vehicle that held $1bn-worth of Facebook shares.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Milner



https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-poligarchs-oligarchs-and-stooges-of-the-paradise-papers


The Paradise Papers have uncovered some of the stooges and their connections to oligarchs. One example is Yuri Milner, a Wharton-educated Russian businessman who once worked for the oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, an oligarch who rejected the mafia-state bargain and lost his fortune, spent ten years in prison, and now lives in exile. Milner started making money through Russian tech investments in the aughts, and by 2009 he was investing in American high-tech companies. He has since become a Silicon Valley fixture and a bit of a science-and-technology celebrity (he founded the Breakthrough Prizes, which offer the biggest cash payout of any science prize in the world). The Paradise Papers expose Milner as a stooge of Alisher Usmanov, an oligarch who has enjoyed most-favored status under Putin. Some of the money for Milner’s investments in Facebook came from Gazprom Investholding, which is the finance arm of the Russian state gas monopoly, Gazprom; at the time, Usmanov ran Gazprom Investholding.

Keep me busy for awhile.


This is pure evil all right but just how stupid do you have to be to fall for this type of thing? Country half full of moroons.

Why are republican leaders silent about Trump's refusal to implement sanctions against Russian? Sanctions approved by Congress!

We know that Russian hacking of election systems occurred in 21 states. We know Facebook ads were used to sway political opinions.

WHAT DON'T WE KNOW YET?

This is really helping me to understand what this whole Cambridge Analytica story is about! Thanks for posting!

....other than to the people who already pay attention to stuff like this.

I agree that it SHOULD have an impact and should be covered by US network and cable news, but it likely won't be or if it does it won't be presented as a big scandal.

are launching investigations, this is just the first chapter in the story...it will be a big scandal when all the dots are connected.

All roads lead to Trump election fraud.

I do not care who does it, but it needs to happen post-haste.